LI Sin Yee Melody (Lily)
I am a PhD student specializing in contact linguistics and language description. I am currently working on Yilan Creole, a contact language spoken in Taiwan, by conducting fieldwork with community members.
I obtained my BA in General Linguistics (minor: Psychology) at the University of Hong Kong in 2016 and worked as teaching assistant in the Department of Linguistics for a few years before pursuing my MA.
I completed my MA in Linguistics at Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2021 with my MA thesis describing the tense-mood-aspect system of Yilan Creole.
I also went on exchange to the University of Edinburgh and Australian National University, reading linguistics and psychology.
| Research Interests/ Primary Fields |
Contact linguistics, language description and documentation, fieldwork, multilingualism, morphosyntax |
| Dissertation Topic/ Title | Tentative topic: Descriptive Grammar of Yilan Creole |
| Dissertation Advisor | Dr Nala LEE Hui Ying |
| Recent Presentations | “TMA system of Yilan Creole spoken by Atayal in Taiwan.” The Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) 2021 Summer Meeting. 2021.
“A unique case of language contact – Yilan Creole in Taiwan.” Linguistics Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum (LSHK ARF2020). 2020. |