Name:
The University
of Hong Kong
Linguistics Department,
School of Humanities
Picus Sizhi Ding
Associate
Professor
Qualifications
Ph.D. in
Linguistics from Australian National University
Dissertation:
Fundamentals of Prinmi (Pumi): A Tibeto-Burman Language of Northwestern Yunnan,
China
M.A. in
Linguistics from Simon Fraser University, Canada
Thesis: The BA
Resultative Construction: A Comprehensive Study of Mandarin BA Sentences.
B.A. in
Linguistics (cum laude) from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
Research
Projects
A descriptive
grammar of Prinmi (a Tibeto-Burman language of Yunnan);
Exploring
phonological typology of languages of China;
A study on pronunciation
of Tangut characters in classical dictionaries.
Publications
[1] 2007. Studies
on Bǎ Resultative Construction: A comprehensive approach to
Mandarin Bǎ sentences. Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 62. München: Lincom
[2] 2011. The
partially denasalized bilabial plosive in Southern Min: comparison to [mb] in
Amdo Tibetan. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences, 584-587
[3] 2010. Phonological change in Hong Kong Cantonese through language contact with
Chinese topolects and English over the past century. In: Robert McColl Millar,
Marginal dialects: Scotland, Ireland and beyond. Aberdeen, UK, Forum for
Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, 198-218
[4] 2010. Rhoticization as a Secondary Articulation in Stops: Evidence from
Prinmi. Chinese Journal of Phonetics 2: 74-81
[5] 粤语的「据由」助词初探，《澳门人文社会科学研究文选·语言翻译卷》（程祥徽主编），北京，社会科学文献出版社：2010，150-159
[6] 2008. Learning
of Minority Languages in Yunnan, China. In De Graaf, Tjeerd, Nicholas Ostler
and Reinier Salverda (eds.) Endangered Languages and Language Learning
(Proceedings of FEL XII), pp. 93-100. Bath, England: Foundation for Endangered
Languages
[7] 2007. Challenges in Language Modernization in China: The case of Prinmi. In
David, Maya, Nicholas Ostler and Caesar Dealwis (eds.) Working Together for
Endangered Languages: Research Challenges and Social Impacts (Proceedings of
FEL XI), pp. 120-126. Bath, England: Foundation for Endangered Languages
[8] 2007. The Use
of Perception Tests in Studying the Tonal System of Prinmi Dialects: A
Speaker-centered Approach to Descriptive Linguistics. Language Documentation
and Conservation 1.2: 154-181
[9] 2006. A
Typological Study of Tonal Systems of Japanese and Prinmi: Towards a definition
of pitch-accent languages. Journal of Universal Language 7.2: 1-35
[10]粵語的「據由」助詞初探，Journal of
Macao Polytechnic Institute 9.4，2006，105-113
[11]2005. China. In Philipp Strazny (ed.)
Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. 189-194
[12]2005. Tone Languages. In Philipp Strazny
(ed.) Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New
York: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1117-1120
[13]普米语语言现代化中存在的问题—兼谈文字推广和语言保存，大卫·布莱德雷编《中国云南濒危语言遗产保护研讨会》，69-78，墨尔本：拉特罗布大学，2005
[14]2003. Prinmi: a sketch of Niuwozi. In Graham
Thurgood and Randy LaPolla (eds.) The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge
Press. 588-601
[15]2001. Semantic Change vs. Categorical Change: A
study of the development of Mandarin BA. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 29.1:
102-128
[16]2001. The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 24.2: 57-83
[17]2000. A Computational Study of the Ba Resultative
Construction: Parsing Mandarin Ba Sentences in HPSG. In Ikeya, Akira &
Masahito Kawamori (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on
Language, Information and Computation, pp. 67-78. Chiba: Toyo Gakuen
University
[18]2000. Topic-Comment Constructions in Prinmi. In
The 33rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics,
pp. 348-359. Bangkok: Ramkhamhaeng University