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YAP Foong Ha

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YAP Foong Ha
Title:

Associate Professor

Education Background:
BS (Southeast Asia Union College, Singapore)

MA (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

PhD (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Email

foonghayap@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

TB524 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2001 Longxiang Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China 518172

Teaching Area

language change (grammaticalization studies), language typology, discourse analysis

Research

Language change (grammaticalization studies), Language typology and language universals, Language acquisition and language processing, Discourse-pragmatic studies

1. GIVE constructions: diachronic development, valence change and voice phenomena, affective uses
2. Versatile Nominalization constructions: diachronic development, extended uses, stance marking functions
3. Versatile SAY constructions: diachronic development, evidential and pragmatic uses from an interactional perspective
4. Epistemicity, evidentiality and politeness marking in Asian languages
5. Attitudinal classifiers
6. Attitudinal interrogatives in interactive talk
7. Demonstratives and stance
8. Attitudinal indexicals (demonstratives, possessive pronouns, semantic role markers, agreement markers, etc.)

1. GIVE constructions: diachronic development, valence change and voice phenomena, affective uses

2. Versatile Nominalization constructions: diachronic development, extended uses, stance marking functions

3. Versatile SAY constructions: diachronic development, evidential and pragmatic uses from an interactional perspective

4. Epistemicity, evidentiality and politeness marking in Asian languages

5. Attitudinal classifiers

6. Attitudinal interrogatives in interactive talk

7. Demonstratives and stance

8. Attitudinal indexicals (demonstratives, possessive pronouns, semantic role markers, agreement markers, etc.)




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