CHOW Ka Fat's Homepage

ANNOUCNEMENT

This is the Mirror Website of Chow Ka Fat's Website. Should you wish to browse my Official Website, please click the following link: Chow Ka Fat's Homepage (Official Website).

Welcome to my homepage. My name is CHOW Ka Fat, or Ka-fat CHOW, following the Western habit of placing the family name at the back of one's name. I am a PhD student of linguistics. Apart from linguistics, I am also interested in history and mathematics as well as an enthusiast of the Mastermind game. Here you can find the links to two chronologies compiled by me and my Mastermind website, some online games as well as the materials of some of my academic presentations in English. I also maintain a Chinese homepage. If you can read Chinese, you may visit my Chinese homepage which includes some of my essays on history, mathematics and linguistics. Hope that you love this site.

DEGREES

Degree	Institution	Year of Award
Bachelor of Social Science	Chinese University of Hong Kong	1989
Bachelor of Science with Honours in Mathematics	Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong	1995
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics	City University of Hong Kong	1999
Master of Arts in Chinese Linguistics	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	2007

AWARD

Award	Institution / Organisation	Year of Award
Outstanding Thesis Award (M.A.)	Linguistic Society of Hong Kong	2007

SOME OF MY ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH

Date	Venue	Event	Title	Material
2008.3.29	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	First Faculty of Communication Postgraduate Research Symposium 2008	Squares of opposition and dual inferences	Abstract
2009.11.29	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	The Fifth International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar	Subjective Quantity	Abstract
2010.4.26	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Third Postgraduate Research Symposium: Language and Cultural Studies in the Pearl River Delta	A Quasi-Self-Dual Interpretation of Negative Raising	Abstract
2010.6.17	University of Corsica	Second World Congress on the Square of Opposition	General Patterns of Opposition Squares and 2n-gons	Abstract Slides
2011.5.14	City University of Hong Kong	The 7th LSHK Postgraduate Research Forum on Linguistics	Opposition Inferences and Scalar Implicatures	Abstract
2011.10.11	Sun Yat-sen University	The Third International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-III)	A Semantic Model for Vague Quantifiers Combining Fuzzy Theory and Supervaluation Theory	Paper and Slides
2011.12.6	Sun Yat-sen University	The 2011 International Conference on Non-classical Modal and Predicate Logics (NCMPL 2011)	A Bilattice-based GQT Framework for Interrogatives and Interrogative Inferences	Paper
2011.12.19	University of Amsterdam	18th Amsterdam Colloquium 2011	Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences	Paper

PUBLICATIONS

On Monotonic Inferential Relationships of Quantified Structures in Natural Language (in Chinese), M.A. dissertation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2007) (doc file, pdf file, Revision)
"A Semantic Model for Vague Quantifiers Combining Fuzzy Theory and Supervaluation Theory" in van Ditmarsch, H., Lang, J. and Ju, S. (eds.): Logic, Rationality and Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6953/2011, pp. 61-73, Berlin: Springer-Verlag (2011) (author-final version, slides associated with this paper with additional materials)
"The General Pattern of Squares of Opposition and its Applications" (in Chinese) in Jiang, Y. (ed.) Approaching Formal Pragmatics, pp. 104-121, Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House (2011)
"Monotonicity and Scalar Reasoning" (in Chinese) in Jiang, Y. (ed.) Approaching Formal Pragmatics, pp. 122-174, Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House (2011)
"Formal Representation and Inferential Patterns of Interrogative Quantifiers" (in Chinese) in Jiang, Y. (ed.) Approaching Formal Pragmatics, pp. 175-261, Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House (2011)
"General Patterns of Opposition Squares and 2n-gons" in Beziau, J.-Y. and Jacquette, D. (eds), Around and Beyond the Square of Opposition, Basel: Birkhauser / Springer (forthcoming)
"A Scalar Model Interpretation for Subjective Quantity" (in Chinese), accepted to Chinese Language Learning