Nomination of LSHK Outstanding Thesis Award is now open (Deadline: September 14, 2020)
LSHK Outstanding Thesis Award
LSHK invites nomination for the annual LSHK Outstanding Thesis Award. The award is given to any outstanding thesis which contributes to any area in linguistics.
There are five categories of the award:
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M.A. thesis
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M.Phil. thesis
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Other Master’s thesis
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Ph.D. thesis
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Other Doctorate thesis
Only students enrolled at local tertiary education institutions are eligible. The Chief Supervisor must be a regular staff member at a local tertiary education institution and an LSHK member to be eligible to nominate his/her students. The nomination must be made by the Chief Supervisor. No supervisor should submit more than one nomination per category in any year.
Winners of the awards will give presentations of their works at the LSHK Annual Research Forum.
Recipients of LSHK Outstanding Thesis Awards
2003
M.A.
Mei Fung LAI The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: 粵語「添」的一些語言特點 [Some linguistic properties of tim1 in Cantonese]
Supervisor: Professor Sze-Wing Tang
2004
Ph.D.
Peppina Po-lun LEE City University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: A syntax-semantics mapping approach to Cantonese suffixal quantifiers
Supervisor: Professor Haihua Pan
M.Phil.
Winnie Oi-wan CHOR The University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: A semantic and pragmatic analysis of verbal particles in Cantonese
Supervisor: Professor K. K. Luke
M.A.
Daphne Siu Lai HO The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: On the acquisition of bei2-dative constructions in Cantonese
Supervisor: Professor Sze-Wing Tang
2005
M.Phil.
Wing Man Stella KWAN The University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: On the word order of locative prepositional phrases in Cantonese: processing, iconicity and grammar
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Matthews
2006
M.Phil.
Ki Shun Antonio CHEUNG The University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Processing factors in language comprehension and production: the case of Cantonese dative constructions
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Matthews
M.A.
Di MI The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: L2 acquisition of preposition stranding and pied-piping by Chinese learners of English
Supervisor: Professor Gladys Tang
2008
Ph.D.
Sherman LEE City University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: A study of language choice and language shift among the Hakka-speaking population in Hong Kong, with a primary focus on Sha Tau Kok
Supervisor: Professor Chor Shing David Li
M.Phil.
Kevin CHAN The University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: The perception and production of lexical stress by Cantonese speakers of English
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Matthews
M.A.
Feifei YU The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: How the Chinese locative words with Shang express the concept Shang
2009
M.Phil.
Aijun HUANG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Count-mass distinction and the acquisition of classifiers in Mandarin-speaking children
Supervisor: Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee
M.A.
Donald Timothy WHITE The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Speech rhythm development in a balanced Cantonese-English child
Supervisor: Professor Peggy Mok
2010
M.Phil.
Xiangjun DENG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: The acquisition of the resultative verb compound in Mandarin Chinese
Supervisor: Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Hin Yee WONG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: The acquisition of verb particle constructions in Cantonese-English bilingual children
Supervisor: Professor Virginia Yip
M.A.
Xiaochun CAI The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Sentence-medial particles in Shantou dialect
Supervisor: Professor Candice Cheung
2011
Ph.D.
John WAKEFIELD The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Thesis title: The English equivalents of Cantonese sentence-final particles: A contrastive analysis
Superviosr: Professor Sze-Wing Tang
2013
M.A.
Shing YU
Thesis title: 中古三四等韻在現代粵語的發展
2014
Ph.D.
Yuli FENG City University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: A semantic study on distributive effects in Mandarin Chinese
Supervisor: Professor Haihua Pan
M.A.
Shuwen CHEN The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Mental representation of emotion word in the Chinese-English bilingual lexicon
Supervisor: Professor Peggy Mok
Ming Chiu Steven WONG The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Did Obamacare encourage businesses to hire more people? - An analysis of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama’s use of rhetorical questions in the 2012 US presidential election campaign
Supervisor: Professor Foong Ha Yap
2015
Ph.D.
Cherie WONG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: 粵語複合助詞的研究 [A study of compound particles in Cantonese]
Supervisor: Professor Sze-Wing Tang
2016
Ph.D.
Siu Pong CHENG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: 香港粵語動詞前後置成份的句法語義關係 [The relationship of syntactic and semantic aspects of postverbal particles and their preverbal counterparts in Hong Kong Cantonese]
Supervisior: Professor Sze-Wing Tang
M.A.
Scarlet Wan Yee LI The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: The relation of working memory, declarative memory and procedural memory as individual differences in second language acquisition
Supervisior: Professor Gloria Zhang
2017
Ph.D.
Margaret LEI The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: The acquisition of A-quantification in Cantonese
Supervisior: Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee
2018
Ph.D.
Liming LIU The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
Thesis itle: Examining syntactic complexity in EFL academic writing
Supervisior: Professor Kathleen Ahrens
M.Phil.
Oscar WONG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Wh-doublets in Cantonese
Supervisior: Professor Lawrence Cheung
M.A.
Emily Anna Jantien KOENDERS The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis itle: Noun classifiers in Hong Kong Sign Language
Supervisior: Professor Galdys Tang
2019
Ph.D.
Pui Yiu SZETO The University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Typological variation across Sinitic languages: Contact and convergence
Supervisior: Professor Stephen Matthews
M.Phil.
Mei Ying KI The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: 粵語升降句調研究
Supervisior: Professor Sze-Wing Tang
M.A.
Sharon Tsoi Lam LEE The University of Hong Kong
Thesis title: Focus prosody in Cantonese: The case of verb-copying constructions
Supervisior: Professor Stephen Matthews
