Pui Yiu Szeto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pui Yiu Szeto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pui Yiu |
| FAMILY NAME | Szeto |
| SIGNATURE | SZETO P Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8444-4060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Suvarṇabhūmi Convergence Area
In this study, we investigate the Suvarṇabhūmi area, corresponding to central–southern Mainland Southeast Asia. We test the hypothesis that this region, located to the south of the Himalayan foothills, can be characterised as a convergence zone in which diverse entities involving humans, animals, and artefacts have significantly diverged from their related counterparts outside the area. We argue that this process of convergence was facilitated by…
Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children
Previous research has shown that past-tense inflection is particularly difficult for child learners of English whose L1 is Chinese, with persistent omission often attributed to cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Building on this literature, this study investigates how Chinese–English bilingual children in the United States (US, n = 4) realize English past tense in naturalistic production between 2;8 and 6;11, focusing on CLI from their heritage la…
The language of ESG sustainability reports of Chinese listed companies
Amid increasing global environmental concerns, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has become standard practice for listed companies; few studies, however, analyzed Chinese ESG reports from an ecolinguistic perspective. This study employs quantitative corpus-assisted ecolinguistic methods to systematically compare vocabulary choices and discourse patterns in a corpus of 136 sustainability reports, further divided into two subcor…
Typology of Chinese Languages
Of the world's major language groups, the Sinitic (Chinese) branch of the Sino-Tibetan family stands out for the profound disconnect between its popular perception and its linguistic reality
Lexical indicators for Chinese language ecological discourse analysis
Disposal constructions in Chaoshan Southern Min
This study examines the use of various types of disposal constructions in the Chenghai dialect of Chaoshan Southern Min. Based on the distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking grammar, we identify four types of disposal constructions, depending on the position of the marker. We performed the fruit cart task to elicit disposal constructions from 30 native speakers of this dialect. Our results indicate that zero-marking is the most dom…
Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese
The morpheme ‘give’ is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a lesser-known group of Sinitic languages. Making use of both primary and secondary data, we have identified ten different functions of GIVE, namely (i) lexical verb ‘give’, (ii) recipient marker ‘t…
Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region
It is well-known that Tai-Kadai languages have affected the typological profiles of Southern Sinitic varieties. For example, compared with their northern sisters, Southern Sinitic varieties display a stronger tendency towards head-initial structures, as in the N – N compounds for expressing the sex of animals and in post-verbal temporal adverbs. Given that the Tai-Kadai languages in China have been in contact with Sinitic for over two millennia, …
Revisiting the Amdo Sprachbund
This paper attempts to discuss the convergence phenomena in the Amdo Sprachbund in the light of genetic and cultural/religious factors. As an ethnolinguistically diverse region, the Amdo Sprachbund constitutes a natural laboratory for the study of language contact and human interaction at large. Unsurprisingly, populations within the Amdo Sprachbund show considerable signs of genetic admixture which sometimes result in disagreement between geneti…
Sinitic as a typological sandwich
Decades of works dedicated to the description of (previously) lesser-known Sinitic languages have effectively dispelled the common myth that these languages share a single “universal Chinese grammar”. Yet, the underlying cause of their grammatical variation is still a matter for debate. This paper focuses on typological variation across Sinitic varieties. Through comparing the typological profiles of various Sinitic languages with those of their …
Bilingual children as "laboratories" for studying contact outcomes
This paper examines the close parallels between the contact phenomena in Cantonese-English bilingual children and Southeast Asian creoles, especially in the domain of perfective aspect marking. 'Already' is a cross-linguistically common lexical source of perfective aspect markers given its conceptual link with the sense of perfectivity. In contact scenarios involving a European lexifier and Southeast Asian substrates, the development of 'already'…
Multiple Correspondence and Typological Convergence in Contact-Induced Grammaticalization
This paper examines the emergence of perfective aspect in Cantonese-English bilingual children from the perspective of contact-induced grammaticalization, focusing on the novel use of already . Although the adverbial already seems to serve a function similar to that of the Cantonese perfective marker zo2 in the bilingual children, other model constructions suggest that the function of already may combine those of several Cantonese particles such …
Multiple Correspondence and Typological Convergence in Contact-Induced Grammaticalization
This paper examines the emergence of perfective aspect in Cantonese-English bilingual children from the perspective of contact-induced grammaticalization, focusing on the novel use of already . Although the adverbial already seems to serve a function similar to that of the Cantonese perfective marker zo2 in the bilingual children, other model constructions suggest that the function of already may combine those of several Cantonese particles such …
Bilingual children as "laboratories" for studying contact outcomes
This paper examines the close parallels between the contact phenomena in Cantonese-English bilingual children and Southeast Asian creoles, especially in the domain of perfective aspect marking. 'Already' is a cross-linguistically common lexical source of perfective aspect markers given its conceptual link with the sense of perfectivity. In contact scenarios involving a European lexifier and Southeast Asian substrates, the development of 'already'…
Multiple Correspondence and Typological Convergence in Contact-Induced Grammaticalization
This paper examines the emergence of perfective aspect in Cantonese-English bilingual children from the perspective of contact-induced grammaticalization, focusing on the novel use of already . Although the adverbial already seems to serve a function similar to that of the Cantonese perfective marker zo2 in the bilingual children, other model constructions suggest that the function of already may combine those of several Cantonese particles such …
Bilingual children as "laboratories" for studying contact outcomes
This paper examines the close parallels between the contact phenomena in Cantonese-English bilingual children and Southeast Asian creoles, especially in the domain of perfective aspect marking. 'Already' is a cross-linguistically common lexical source of perfective aspect markers given its conceptual link with the sense of perfectivity. In contact scenarios involving a European lexifier and Southeast Asian substrates, the development of 'already'…
Revisiting the Amdo Sprachbund
This paper attempts to discuss the convergence phenomena in the Amdo Sprachbund in the light of genetic and cultural/religious factors. As an ethnolinguistically diverse region, the Amdo Sprachbund constitutes a natural laboratory for the study of language contact and human interaction at large. Unsurprisingly, populations within the Amdo Sprachbund show considerable signs of genetic admixture which sometimes result in disagreement between geneti…
Sinitic as a typological sandwich
Decades of works dedicated to the description of (previously) lesser-known Sinitic languages have effectively dispelled the common myth that these languages share a single “universal Chinese grammar”. Yet, the underlying cause of their grammatical variation is still a matter for debate. This paper focuses on typological variation across Sinitic varieties. Through comparing the typological profiles of various Sinitic languages with those of their …
Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region
It is well-known that Tai-Kadai languages have affected the typological profiles of Southern Sinitic varieties. For example, compared with their northern sisters, Southern Sinitic varieties display a stronger tendency towards head-initial structures, as in the N – N compounds for expressing the sex of animals and in post-verbal temporal adverbs. Given that the Tai-Kadai languages in China have been in contact with Sinitic for over two millennia, …
Disposal constructions in Chaoshan Southern Min
This study examines the use of various types of disposal constructions in the Chenghai dialect of Chaoshan Southern Min. Based on the distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking grammar, we identify four types of disposal constructions, depending on the position of the marker. We performed the fruit cart task to elicit disposal constructions from 30 native speakers of this dialect. Our results indicate that zero-marking is the most dom…
Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese
The morpheme ‘give’ is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a lesser-known group of Sinitic languages. Making use of both primary and secondary data, we have identified ten different functions of GIVE, namely (i) lexical verb ‘give’, (ii) recipient marker ‘t…
Lexical indicators for Chinese language ecological discourse analysis
The language of ESG sustainability reports of Chinese listed companies
Amid increasing global environmental concerns, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has become standard practice for listed companies; few studies, however, analyzed Chinese ESG reports from an ecolinguistic perspective. This study employs quantitative corpus-assisted ecolinguistic methods to systematically compare vocabulary choices and discourse patterns in a corpus of 136 sustainability reports, further divided into two subcor…
Typology of Chinese Languages
Of the world's major language groups, the Sinitic (Chinese) branch of the Sino-Tibetan family stands out for the profound disconnect between its popular perception and its linguistic reality
Suvarṇabhūmi Convergence Area
In this study, we investigate the Suvarṇabhūmi area, corresponding to central–southern Mainland Southeast Asia. We test the hypothesis that this region, located to the south of the Himalayan foothills, can be characterised as a convergence zone in which diverse entities involving humans, animals, and artefacts have significantly diverged from their related counterparts outside the area. We argue that this process of convergence was facilitated by…
Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children
Previous research has shown that past-tense inflection is particularly difficult for child learners of English whose L1 is Chinese, with persistent omission often attributed to cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Building on this literature, this study investigates how Chinese–English bilingual children in the United States (US, n = 4) realize English past tense in naturalistic production between 2;8 and 6;11, focusing on CLI from their heritage la…
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Language contact (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)