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Trained as a linguist, Dr. Andy Chin has a wide range of interests in linguistics research, including linguistic typology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and Chinese linguistics. He has undertaken different types of projects supported by General Research Fund, Early Career Scheme, Knowledge Transfer Fund, Central Research Fund, Teaching Development Grants, SCOLAR funds.
Dr. Chin has taught a great variety of linguistics courses: Introduction to Linguistics, Language and Society / Sociolinguistics, Spoken and Written Discourse, Chinese Rhetoric, Structure of Chinese, Cantonese Linguistics, Langugage, Society and Cognition, Asian Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca in Asia. He also teaches Cantonese grammar courses for students in the area of Speech-Language Pathology.
One of the key research projects of Andy is the Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese developed in 2012. The corpus data was drawn from the speech dialogues in early Cantonese movies produced between 1950 and 1970 [http://hkcc.eduhk.hk/]. The corpus data is useful for studying how Cantonese was used half a century ago. The cinematic nature of the corpus can also be used for studying the inter-relationship between language and culture and society. A digital museum has been constructed to highlight some interesting but unnoticeable linguistic changes in the Cantonese language over the past 60 years. The language items displayed include vocabulary and grammatical structures together with the selected video segments from the Cantonese movies.
Dr. Chin is also a recipient of Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Overseas Studies, HKIEd President's Award for Oustanding Performance in Research (under the category of Early Career Research Excellence Award), Young Scholar Award for Best Paper conferred by the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Dr Chin won several KT awards based on his Cantonese corpus. These include a gold medal and a special award at Silicon Valley International Invention Festival in 2019, and a silver medal at 2021 Geneva’s Inventions Expo.
Dr Chin is now the Head of the Department of Linguistics & Modern Language Studies (since July 2019), and Associate Dean (Research & Postgraduate Studies) of the Faculty of Humanities (since March 2023).
More information about Dr. Chin can be obtained from his homepage at http://www.hkseattle.com.
Research interests
- Chinese linguistics (especially cross-dialectal grammar)
- Cantonese studies
- Corpus linguistics
- Linguistic typology
- Linguistic change (both temporal and spatial dimensions)
- Sociolinguistics
- Grammaticalization
External Appointments
- Managing editor, Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
- President, The 17th Executive Committee of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (香港語言學學會) (2018-2019)
- External Examiner (English courses), Lingnan Institute of Further Education, Lingnan University (September 1 2014 to August 31 2019)
- Member, The 16th Executive Committee of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (香港語言學學會) (2016-2017)
- Member, The 14th Executive Committee of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (香港語言學學會) (2012-2013)
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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學科學術語言探析:支援非華語生以中文學習中國歷史 (A study of subject-specific academic language: Supporting non-Chinese speaking students to learn Chinese History in Chinese )
LEUNG, P. W. P. & CHIN, C. O. A.
01/11/21 → 30/04/23
Project: Research project
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A Self-learning Open Platform of Chinese for Non-Chinese Speaking Learners (咔嚓拍字學中文 - 開放式網上自學平台)
CHIN, C. O. A., TSE, K. H. & KATAOKA, S.
01/09/19 → 31/08/22
Project: Other project
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Construction of Gender in Primary Literacy Resources: A Study of Readers for Hong Kong Early Learners
CHIN, C. O. A. & LEE, F. K. J.
01/01/18 → 30/06/20
Project: Research project
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Linguistic Analysis of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese by Constructing an Annotated Spoken Corpus
01/12/13 → 30/11/16
Project: Research project
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Quadrasyllabic Idiomatic Expressions (QIE’s) in Chinese and neighboring Languages: An Investigation into Linguistic and Cultural History
CHIN, C. O. A., TSOU, K. Y. B., CHEUNG, H. T. & KATAOKA, S.
01/10/12 → 30/09/14
Project: Research project
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Cantonese GIVE and double-object construction: Grammaticalization and word order change
CHIN, C. O. A., Jun 2022, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.Research output: Book/Report › Books
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Learning Cantonese with a big data approach
CHIN, C. O. A., May 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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Constructing gender using visual imagery: A study of early readers
LEE, F. K. J. & CHIN, C. O., May 2021, In: Language and Communication. 78, p. 1-18Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Integrating MALL and DDL into Cantonese learning and teaching: A case study of the CanPro mobile app
CHIN, C. O. A., Aug 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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Prizes
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2012/2013 HKIEd President's Awards for Outstanding Performance in Research
CHIN, Chi On, Andy 錢志安 (Recipient), 23 May 2013
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Gold Medal Award - Silicon Valley International Invention Festival (SVIIF)
CHIN, Chi On, Andy 錢志安 (Recipient), TSE, Ming San, Crono (Recipient), LAI, Yik Po (Recipient) & LAU, Tin Yau (Recipient), Jun 2019
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Silver Medal Award - Geneva’s Inventions Expo
CHIN, Chi On, Andy 錢志安 (Recipient) & NG, Chun Yick Nicky (Recipient), Mar 2021
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Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships for Overseas Studies
CHIN, Chi On, Andy 錢志安 (Recipient), Sept 2002
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