Selected Handouts and Manuscripts

NB: The analyses in the following unpublished handouts and manuscripts presented at conferences and talks are not finalized yet. Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Unless specified, all Chinese characters are in Big-5 (traditional) codes.

• 1999. Some notes on the so-called 'pseudo-passives' in Chinese. Handout of talk given at the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 11-12, 1999 (with Dingxu Shi). (containing Chinese characters)
• 2000. Focus as an anchoring condition. Handout of talk given at the International Symposium on Topic and Focus in Chinese, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June 21-23, 2000 (with Thomas H.-T. Lee). (containing Chinese characters)
• 2004. 名詞詞綴／詞尾的分類與中國東南部方言 [Nominal suffixes in southeast Chinese dialects]. Manuscript given at 中國東南部方言比較研究計劃──名詞詞尾研討會 (Workshop on Nominal Suffixes), Xiamen University, March 25-26, 2004. (in GB/simplified Chinese characters with limited IPA symbols (Lucida Sans Unicode))
• 2004. Some notes on the syntax of Chinese partitives and indefinites. Handout of talk given at Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 11-12, 2004. (containing Big-5 Chinese/HKSCS Cantonese characters)
• 2005. On the plural morpheme in Cantonese. PowerPoint presented at the 4th LSHK Workshop on Cantonese, City University of Hong Kong, April 11, 2005.
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Interviews

• 2003. 暢談語言學 [On linguistics]. 半島青年商會《快箭》[Junior Peninsula Chamber Newsletter], 2.
• 2005. 粵語拼音倡列課程。《太陽報》(October 9, 2005). (see also the press release from CityU, Chinese: [PDF], English: [PDF])
• 2006. 潮人潮語。《星期日檔案》。電視廣播有限公司(Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB))。(released as a television broadcast on October 29, 2006).
• 2008. O 嘴又屈機，潮語 Q&A。香港大學學生會教育學會學術論壇 (October 8, 2008), Education Society, University of Hong Kong Student Union. (「學者﹕家長學潮語助兩代溝通」，《明報》[Ming Pao] October 9, 2008: [PDF]；「語言專家為潮語大平反」，《頭條日報》[Hong Kong Headline] October 9, 2008: [PDF]；「學者「潮語」促師長適當引導」，《香港經濟日報》[HKET] October 9, 2008: [PDF])
• 2011. 逸夫書院銀禧院慶紀念錄像 [Shaw College Silver Jubilee Video]，香港中文大學逸夫書院 Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong。(released on January 14, 2011).
• 2012. 認識方言真面貌：粵語語法學研究 [Understanding the dialect: Cantonese grammatical studies]，《中大通訊》CUHK Newsletter #393 (March 4, 2012). [PDF]
• 2012. Putonghua - a better way to learn, Versity (March).