Bit-Chee Kwok received his BA and MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. After holding research and teaching positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Academia Sinica, and City University of Hong Kong, he currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Current Research in Chinese Linguistics, and Studies in Yue Dialects. His specializations lie primarily in Chinese dialectology and historical linguistics, with a focus on the interactions between Southern Chinese dialects and minority languages. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the courses he offered include ‘Introduction to Chinese Linguistics’, ‘Introduction to Chinese Phonology’, ‘Studies in Chinese Phonology’, and ‘Chinese Dialectology’.
Chinese dialectology / Historical linguistics / Language contact
- Morphological division of labor and competition between colloquial and literary readings: The case of Xiamen Southern Min (in Chinese). Language and Linguistics3 (2023): 437-468.
- A revisit to ‘Proto-Min’s vowel length contrast’ hypothesis (in Chinese). Inspirations from a Lofty Mountain: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on His 90th Birthday (Chinese volume), eds. by Jiangping Kong et al., 3-16. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2023.
- Multiple origins of Southeastern Sinitic tsh– corresponding to Middle Chinese s– or sr-. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 51 (2022):121-138.
- A Grammar of Nanning Yue: A Language Contact Perspective (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 2019.
- Southern Min: Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping. London/New York: Routledge.
- (Chin, Andy C-O., Bit-Chee Kwok, Benjamin K-Y. Tsou eds.) Commemorative Essays for Professor Yuen Ren Chao: Father of Modern Chinese Linguistics. Taipei: Crain Publishing, 2016.
- Diminutive sound changes in the Yue dialects (in Chinese). Chinese Studies2 (2016):281-314.
- (Kwok, Bit-Chee, Andy C-O. Chin, Benjamin K-Y. Tsou) Grammatical diversity across the Yue dialects. Journal of Chinese Linguistics1 (2016): 109-152.
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| Year | Research Scheme |
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| 2023-2025 | PI, General Research Fund (GRF), ‘Contact-induced phonological and lexical changes in Chinese dialects: case studies of Pu-Xian Min and Hainan Min’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 01/01/2023 – 30/06/2025 |
| 2022-2024 | PI, General Research Fund (GRF), ‘A Study of classifiers and related noun phrases in Shantou Southern Min’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024 |
| 2019-2021 | PI, General Research Fund (GRF), ‘Proto-Min and Old Chinese: A Comparative Phonological Study’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021 |
| 2017-2019 | PI, General Research Fund (GRF), ‘Morphological Stratification of Chinese Language: Case Studies of Xiamen and Shantou Southern Min’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2019 |
| 2013-2015 | PI, Research grant funded by Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan, ‘A Study on Subgrouping of Southern Min’, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 01/07/2013 – 30/06/2015 |
| 2007-2011 | PI, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG; =GRF), ‘A Comparative Study of 10 Periphery Yue Dialects: Contribution to Chinese Linguistics’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 01/12/2007 – 31/05/2011 |
| Year | Awards and Honors |
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| 2013-2018 | Outside the University
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| 2018-2028 | At CUHK
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