Saint Francis University - Dr Michelle LI Kin-ling

Name	Michelle LI
Present Post	Assistant Professor Ip Ying To Lee Yu Yee School of Humanities and Languages Caritas Institute of Higher Education
Office Address	Room A615
Telephone	(852) 3702 4304
Email	mli@cihe.edu.hk

Biography

Dr Li earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Hong Kong and joined Caritas Institute of Higher Education (CIHE) in 2015. She specializes in bilingualism and language contact, particularly pidgins and creoles of the Asia-Pacific region. She studies extensively the historical development and grammar of Chinese Pidgin English. Her recent projects include the construction of a corpus of Chinese Pidgin English funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC), the use of contact varieties of English in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and the grammar of a Hokkien-Spanish pidgin spoken in the Philippines.

Teaching

LBS301 Bilingual Studies
LBS302 Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English
LBS403 Issues in Bilingualism
LCOM305 World Englishes
LLIB201 Bilingual Communication
LLIB305 Lexicography
LLIB311 Sociolinguistics
LLIB403 Thesis Writing
LENG204 English Communication I
LENG303 English Communication II
LENG103 Professional Communication in Health Care
LENG302 English Communication for Social Sciences II

Research

Research interests: bilingualism, language contact, pidgins and creoles, lexical semantics, Chinese linguistics, iconicity, grammaticalization

Funded Project
Title: Origins of the grammar of Chinese Pidgin English (UGC/FDS11/H01/18), Faculty Development Scheme, RGC; HK$464,700

Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 30 June 2021

Publications

Li, Michelle. 2020. Language History from Below: Pidgins and Creoles as Examples. In Émilie Aussant and Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.). Historical Journey in a Linguistic Archipelago: Descriptive Concepts and Case Studies, pp. 115–128. Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4269419
Li, Michelle. 2017. The emergence of so as a complementizer in Chinese Pidgin English. English World-Wide, 38(1): 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.38.1.02li
Li, Michelle & Stephen Matthews. 2016. An outline of Macau Pidgin Portuguese. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 31(1): 141-183. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.31.1.06li
Li, Michelle. 2016. Trade pidgins in China: Historical and grammatical relationships. Transactions of the Philological Society, 114(3): 298-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12066
Li, Michelle. 2016. Macau Pidgin Portuguese and Creole Portuguese: a continuum? In Armin Schwegler, John McWhorter & Liane Ströbel (eds.), The Iberian Challenge: Creoles Languages Beyond the Plantation Setting, pp. 113-134. Iberoamericana Vervuert. https://doi.org/10.31819/9783954878949
Li, Michelle & Stephen Matthews. 2013. Chinese Pidgin English dataset. In Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber (eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at: https://apics-online.info/contributions/20)
Matthews, Stephen & Michelle Li. 2013. Chinese Pidgin English. In Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber (eds.), Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volume I: English-based and Dutch-based languages, pp. 206-213. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Matthews, Stephen & Michelle Li. 2012. Portuguese pidgin and Chinese Pidgin English in Canton trade. In Hugo Cardoso, Alan Baxter & Mário Pinharanda (eds.), Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, p. 263-287. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.46.10mat
Li, Michelle. 2011. Origins of a preposition: Chinese Pidgin English long and its implications for pidgin grammar. Journal of Language Contact, 4(2): 269-294. https://doi.org/10.1163/187740911X589271

Conference and Seminar Presentations

Li, Michelle & Lewis Cheung. 2021b. A corpus of Chinese Pidgin English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. 7-10 June. University of Hong Kong.
Li, Michelle. 2019a. Makee constructions in Chinese Pidgin English. Conference of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish-Lexified Creoles & the Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, 17-19 June. University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Li, Michelle. 2019b. When Chinese Pidgin English Took Centre Stage. 24th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), 20-22 June. University of Limerick, Ireland.
Li, Michelle. 2018. Merchants as lexicographers. HoLLTnet international meeting: 'Bi-/Multilingualism and the History of Language Learning and Teaching'. University of Reading, United Kingdom, 5-7 July 2018.
Li, Michelle. 2017a. Language history from below: evidence from Chinese Pidgin English. The 14th International Conference On The History of The Language Sciences, 28 August – 1 September. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
Li, Michelle. 2017b. Bilingual glossaries in Chinese almanac: space for informal language learning. The 11th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, 10-12 June. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China.
Li, Michelle. 2016a. The polysemy of the Cantonese visual perception verb gin3. 21st International Conference on Yue Dialects, 12-13 December. Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao.
Li, Michelle. 2016b. Semantic extension of visual perception verbs in Cantonese. 8th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC), 13-14 May. National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Li, Michelle. 2015a. Ethnic diversity in early Hong Kong: A linguistic landscape study. 15th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations. 15-17 July. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Li, Michelle. 2015b. Macau Pidgin Portuguese: a new source and its implications. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics and Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola. 7-9 July. University of Graz, Austria.

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