My teaching aims to equip students with methods and concepts for describing linguistic diversity in its social context. From the University of Hong Kong, I pursue this along three axes: field linguistics courses that take students to African and Asian countries for hands-on training; core courses in sociolinguistics, language contact, linguistic diversity, and African studies; as well as guest professorships at institutions worldwide. My postgraduate students work on language contact and the grammar of understudied languages of Africa and Asia.
Alvares, Antonia (ongoing)
McKnight, Jocelyn (ongoing)
Deng, Wenxiyuan (ongoing)
Chen, Changhe (2026)
Adjong, Darius (2025)
Bisilki, Abraham Kwesi (2022)
Ching Yat, Lewis (2022)
Grunberg, Cynthia (2022)
Josafath-Eduards, Lenie (2022)
Schneider, Luise (2021)
Atiku, Alkali Abubakar (2018)
Perangin Angin, Dalan (2018)
Yang, Yang (2016)
Berends, Jan Willem (2016)
Jia, Fanlu (2016)
Kwok, Pui-yan, Veronica (2016)
Wu, Mengqi (2014)
Lestiono, Riski (2012)
Addresses the impact of globalization, colonization, nation-statism, and bottom-up processes on linguistic diversity.
Examines social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization from an African perspective.
Introduces students to the art and science of collecting and analysing real-life language data during experiential learning trips.
Explores the relationship between language and society, covering topics such as language variation, gender, language attitudes and ideologies.
Examines linguistic and social aspects of language contact and change.
Explores links between language structures and cognitive processes.
Explores multilingualism and language contact in multilingual speakers and societies.
A holistic take on the African Caribbean English Creoles.
