Prof. XU received her Mphil and PhD degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining UM, she worked in CUHK for several years. Prof. XU’s research interests lie primarily in Chinese dialectology and phonology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics. The results of her findings appear in journals including Zhongguo Yuwen(《中國語文》), Language and Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Studies, etc. Prof. XU’s monograph《潮州方言一百多年來的音韻演變》has been published in Commercial Press (Beijing). She is also the Principal Investigator of many academic projects. Now Prof. XU focuses on the research of Chinese dialects around the west Pacific Ocean.

Chinese dialectology, Chinese phonology, contact linguistics, historical linguistics

方言學，音韻學，語言接觸，漢語史

Current Research

Internal Grant

The Study of Phonological Change and Historical Strata in Min Dialects of Guangdong and Hainan Provinces粵瓊閩語音韻演變與歷史層次研究 UM SRG（SRG2020-00003-FAH）

External Grant

Sources of Fishermen’s Min Dialects in Hong Kong. The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust（HAB/C 27/9/124）

Previous Research (selected)

(Principal Investigator)On the Ecology of Southern Min Dialects in Hong Kong. The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust（HAB/C 27/9/11）

(Invited Member) Multi-function Chinese Character Database: Extension to all Frequently Used Characters with Functional Enhancement, Hong Kong Quality Education Fund (2013/0198)

(Invited Member)中國社科基金重大項目「漢語方言學大型辭書編纂的理論研究與數位化建設」（13&ZD135）

(Invited Member)中國社科基金重大項目「海外珍藏漢語文獻與南方明清漢語研究」（12&ZD178）

(Invited Expert) 中國語言資源保護項目「瀕危方言調查·海南三亞軍話」（YB1718A004）