Zhuo Chen 陳卓  

I am a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I spend most of the time thinking about how sentences in human languages are put together and how that interacts with the meanings of them. 

I develop syntactic theories through comparative studies on Chinese languages using original data from understudied non-standard varieties (e.g., Wuhu and Nanjing) of Mandarin. My research also draws inspirations from other Sinitic languages, including Cantonese, Shanghainese, and Teochew, etc. I am equally interested in languages outside China and one language I have been working on is Dschang, a Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon.