Yang GU / Associate Vice President

Prof. Yang Gu held professorial positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for over 20 years, and trained close to 100 postgraduate students, including Masters, MPhils, PhDs and Post-Doctoral Fellows. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, in 2014, served as Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science, and she has been Master of Diligentia College, CUHKSZ.

Prof. Gu obtained her MA and PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University, USA. Her research interests include theory of generative grammar; formal syntax; interfaces of syntax and morphology, and syntax and lexical semantics. In recent years, she has also worked on Tibeto-Burmese comparative linguistics, with a particular focus on the Jingpo language. Her publications contain over 100 items including one edited book, two co-authored books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. She delivered over 50 guest/keynote speeches in over 20 universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea.

She served as Vice-Executive Secretary for the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Vice President and President of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. She is also on the editorial board of several linguistics journals, including Journal of Modern Foreign Languages, Journal of Contemporary Linguistics, and Bulletin of Sino-Tibetan Languages.