Robert Bauer
Honorary Professor
Email: rsbao@yahoo.com
Dr. Leo Francis Hoye
Honorary Associate Professor
Leo Francis Hoye was educated in Britain, France and Romania and is a versatile educator, researcher and writer with broad international experience. He has worked with governmental, public and other agencies in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and, most recently, Hong Kong SAR. Formerly Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong and now an Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts (School of Humanities, Linguistics), Leo divides his time between teaching, editing, writing, and public speaking. Recent presentations at home or overseas include: ‘Engaging Across Cultures: Developing Effective Communication Strategies’ (Romania); ‘Corporate Happiness [sic] Responsibility’ (HK), and ‘Whose English? The “English Effect” in a Global World and a Global Market’ (HK).
Leo’s current academic research interests include semantics and pragmatics (notably modality and evidentiality) and visual pragmatics / multimodality.
Leo teaches in semantics and pragmatics.
Email: leohoye@hku.hk
Room: Room 9.22, RRST, Centennial Campus
Consultation by appointment only.
Dr. Chin-lung Yang
Honorary Associate Professor
Dr. Chin Lung Yang currently works as a senior research scientist in Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the cognitive and neurocognitive basis of high-order language (sentence/text) comprehension, bilingual processing, and language learning, authoring some 20ish research articles in journals and books of psycholinguistics and language learning (with an average impact factor ~3.10 and h-index 13). Some of his works appear in journals of Neuropsychologia (2018), Brain and Language (2010, 2014), Cognition (2003, 2010), JEP: LMC (2007), Applied Cognition (2008), Language and Cognitive Processes (1999), etc.; and books of Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Linguistics (2023), Learning to Read Across Languages: Cross-linguistic Relationships in First- and Second-language Literacy Development (2008), Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Vol. I: Chinese Psycholinguistics (2006), etc.
Dr. Hing Yuet Fung
Adjunct Part-time Lecturer
Dr. Fung specialises in the performance theory of typology, on how the universal preference of processing efficiency predicts alternative linguistic constructions. Her research interests include adverb positions and numeral classifier constructions. She is currently developing corpus studies in Japanese.
Dr. Joe Perry
Honorary Associate Professor
Dr. Joe Perry works on language description, in particular of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Nepal. His theoretical interests lie in syntax and phonology, and especially in the interaction between the two.
Email: jjp45@hku.hk
Dr. Winnie Ho
Adjunct Part-time Lecturer
Dr. Winnie Ho’s research interests lie in literacy Studies, linguistic ethnography, English for specific and academic purposes, Cantonese for non-Chinese speakers and research methodology. Some of her research outputs appear in the journals of Communication and Education (2021), Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies (2019), Linguistics and Language Teaching (2018), the Canadian Journal for Teacher Research (2017), etc.; and books of Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography (2019), Digital Humanities and New Ways of Teaching (2019), Academic Writing for Arts and Humanities Students (2016), etc. She obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics at the Lancaster University, U.K in 2006.
Dr. Hanbo Liao
Adjunct Part-time Lecturer
Dr. Liao’s research interest lies in Tones, Areal linguistics, Language Contact, Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Phonology, Grammar, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, and oral traditions, focusing on the Sinitic and Kra-Dai language groups in South China and Mainland Southeast Asia.
Email: lhbnop@hku.hk
Personal webpage: https://mayxreux.wixsite.com/liao-hanbo
Dr. Wenjing Ni
Adjunct Part-time Lecturer
Dr. Ni obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong in 2024. Her research interests span areas such as psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, natural language processing / computational linguistics, media study, digital humanities, and their interdisciplinary connections. Previously, she was dedicated to leveraging computational techniques and language models to analyze significant language-related aspects of storytelling and audience response patterns.
Dr. Pui Yiu Szeto
Part-time Lecturer
Dr. Pui Yiu Szeto is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from The University of Hong Kong in 2019. Dr. Szeto’s research interests lie primarily in language contact and linguistic typology, with a focus on Sinitic languages and their linguistic neighbours. His scholarly contributions have been featured in esteemed journals such as Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, Folia Linguistica, Journal of Language Contact, Linguistic Typology, and Linguistics.
Personal webpage: https://pyszeto.wixsite.com/home
Dr. Darius Adjong
Part-time Lecturer
I am a researcher and teacher with a passion for languages and cultures. My primary research interests include language documentation and description, linguistic typology, and contact linguistics, with a focus on the Gur and Kwa subgroups of the Niger-Congo family. My work particularly investigates the grammatical structures that languages of these subgroups employ to express meaning, the cognitive and social mechanisms underlying meaning construction, and the outcomes of contact situations. To accomplish this, I employ both community-based linguistic fieldwork and sample-based typological methods for data collection and analysis.
Email: darius20@connect.hku.hk