Research output per year
Research output per year
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Research Interests
- Syntax, Syntax-Semantics-Discourse Interfaces, Grammatical Theories
- Grammar Engineering (via Xerox Linguistic Environment)
- Acceptability-Judgment Experiments
- Corpus Linguistics (and Bilingualism)
- Linguistics of Sinitic Languages
- Linguistic Typology
I have successfully defended my PhD Linguistics dissertation on theoretical linguistics (control and complementation), which is fully funded by SALC. The project is jointly supervised by Prof Kersti Börjars and Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt. The project has brought in novel data from Manchester Chinese. My approach to research is empirically-driven, involving meticulous analysis of data drawn from large-scale language corpora as well as acceptability judgement experiments (followed by statistical analyses using mixed-effects models in R). I analyse the empirical data in the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), which adopts a constraint-based parallel-correspondence architecture with mathematically well-grounded characterisation of various types of linguistic information (e.g., syntax, semantics, information structure). LFG-based grammars are computationally implementable via the Xerox Linguistic Environment. My LFG analysis often involves comparison with existing proposals formulated in other grammatical frameworks, in particular, Minimalist approaches, in an effort to facilitate cross-theoretical understanding.
Since I started my PhD studies, I have been disseminating my research findings at various conferences with associated published work:
Besides theoretical linguistics, I have also conducted research on bilingualism and corpus linguistics. In 2020, I published the article “Inter-sentential Code-switching and Language Dominance in Cantonese–English Bilingual Children” (co-authored with Prof Stephen Matthews) in the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. We applied corpus methods to examine relationships between language dominance and the under-investigated topic of inter-sentential code-switching in Hong Kong Cantonese–English bilingual children. Our findings suggested that intra-sentential and inter-sentential code-switching each have a different status in bilingual children’s developing grammar. We also suggested that, in societies where intra-sentential code-switching is a social norm, inter-sentential code-switching could serve as signs of early bilinguals’ dominance status. (For the published version, see https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMBS/article/view/13308; for the submitted version, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346042820_Inter-sentential_Code-switching_and_Language_Dominance_in_Cantonese-English_Bilingual_Children)
Teaching Qualifications and Experience
I am a Fellow of Advance HE (UK) (awarded in March 2022).
Having received four years of teacher training at The University of Hong Kong, I am a qualified teacher registered with the Hong Kong Education Bureau.
During the four years of teacher training (2011-2015), I taught English to students in Hong Kong at different local schools. Upon graduation, I continued teaching in Hong Kong for several years before embarking on PhD studies. Some of the classes I taught were at the pre-university level, preparing the students for English proficiency tests as part of the university entrance exam in Hong Kong.
In 2021, I taught the weekly seminars of the Linguistic Typology course for the 2nd and 3rd years of undergraduate students at The University of Manchester.
Fellow of Advance HE, Advance HE
Award Date: 14 Mar 2022
Master of Arts, Linguistics (Distinction), University of Hong Kong
1 Sept 2016 → 31 Aug 2017
Award Date: 2 Dec 2017
Bachelor of Education, Language Education (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong
1 Sept 2011 → 31 Aug 2015
Award Date: 4 Dec 2015
Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Linguistics (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong
1 Sept 2011 → 31 Aug 2015
Award Date: 4 Sept 2015
Certificate of Teacher Registration, Hong Kong Education Bureau
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Chit Fung (Lawrence) Lam (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Chit Fung (Lawrence) Lam (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Chit Fung (Lawrence) Lam (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Chit Fung (Lawrence) Lam (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Chit Fung (Lawrence) Lam (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Lam, C. F. (Creator), University of Manchester, Apr 2022
https://github.com/lawrencela/LFG-XLE-Grammars-for-Chinese
Dataset
Supervisor: Börjars, K. (Supervisor) & Schultze-Berndt, E. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Phd