Stephen_Matthews_(linguist)
Stephen Matthews (linguist)
British linguist in Hong Kong
Stephen Matthews (Chinese: 馬詩帆) is a British linguist in Hong Kong. He is Co-Director of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[1][2] His specialist areas include language typology, syntax and semantics. His current interests include the word order typology of Chinese; the grammar of Chinese languages, notably Cantonese, Chaozhou and other Minnan dialects; language contact and bilingualism, with particular reference to Sinitic languages.