Dr Lai Yik Po Receives the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship to Study the Grammatical Diversity of Chinese Dialects
- 2022
- Knowledge Transfer/Research
- Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
Dr Lai Yik Po, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
Dr Lai Yik Po, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, is awarded the 2022/23 RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship to undertake a 36-month research project entitled “Grammatical Diversity of Sinitic Languages and Linguistic Areas in China”. The project aims to investigate the grammatical diversity of Chinese dialects and the areal pattern through a large amount of linguistic data. In addition, a digital database will be built to provide a comprehensive collection of bibliographical data for Chinese dialects with the geographical visualisation feature.
Dr Lai received his doctoral degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include comparative Chinese dialectal grammar, Cantonese linguistics, diachronic grammar, and digital humanities. Dr Lai won “LSHK Award for Outstanding Student Paper on Cantonese Linguistics” in 2017 and was co-awarded a Gold Medal and a Special Award with Dr Andy Chin at the Silicon Valley International Invention Festival in 2019. He was one of the finalists for “the Young Scholar Award of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL)” in 2022.
