Profile of Dr DING, Hongdi 丁泓棣 - The Education University of Hong Kong


Assistant Professor	Department of Chinese Language Studies

Contact

ORCiD

0000-0002-1690-1378

Phone

(852) 2948 7476

hding@eduhk.hk

Address

10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

Website

https://pappl.eduhk.hk/rich/web/person.xhtml?pid=295523&name=DING, Hongdi

Research Interests

Descriptive linguistics, language typology, Tibeto-Burman and Sinitic linguistics

Research Interests

Descriptive linguistics, language typology, Tibeto-Burman and Sinitic linguistics

Research Outputs


Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters Ding, Hongdi (2022). Language Contact in an Asymmetrical Sociolinguistic Environment: The Case of Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of Sichuan, China.. Elia Dal Corso, Soung-U Kim, Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia (156-192). Leiden: Brill. Ding, Hongdi , & Mise Rymga (2020). Texts of Niesu, a Southeastern Dialect of Nuosu: Analyzed Spontaneous Narratives and Grammatical Notes. Munchen: Lincom Europa. Liu, Chengyu, Ding Hongdi, Wang Hong, Yu Lijuan, & Yang, Mingzhong (2014). A multi-case investigation into trilingualism and trilingual education in Liangshan. Feng, A.W. & Adamson, B, Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges (141-171). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Journal Publications Ding, H.D., & Zhang, H. (2026). Linguistic Evidence for the Borrowing and Origin of “Matchmaker” in Liangshan Yi. Languages, 11(6), Article 129. SDGs infomation: 10 - Reduced Inequality Dong, S.C., & Ding, H.D. (2026). A typological study of rainfall expressions in Sino-Tibetan languages. Studies in Language, 50(1), 68-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22056.don SDGs infomation: 10 - Reduced Inequality, 13 - Climate Action Ding, Hongdi & Dong, Sicong (2024). Colexification of “thunder” and “dragon” in Sino-Tibetan languages. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2024.2383513 Ding, Hongdi & Dong, Sicong (2024). Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan. Language and Linguistics, 25(2), 187-233. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00153.don 丁泓棣、拉玛兹偓 (2024)。凉山彝语的桥接重复：一种口语文化的叙述特点。《语言科学》，23(1)，26-43。 Hongdi, Ding & Sicong, Dong (2023). Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 375. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01877-7 Ding, Hongdi (2023). Phonology of Adur Niesu in Liangshan, Sichuan. Languages., 8(3), 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030164 Ding, Hongdi (2022). Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 45(1), 110-150. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.21007.din Ding, Hongdi, & Lama, Ziwo (2021). Aspect markings of Niesu, a dialect of Nuosu in Sichuan, China. Himalayan Linguistics, 20(1), 1-27. Ding, Hongdi (2019). Chinese-dominant bilingualism: Testing the bilingual competence of ethnic Nuosu. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 42(2), 280-322. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.17014.din Ding, Hongdi (2018). A cross-dialectal analysis of Nuosu adjectival comparative constructions. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 41(1), 45-74. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.16023.din Ding, Hongdi & Yu, Lijuan (2013). The dilemma: A study of bilingual education policy in Yi minority schools in Liangshan. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 16(4)*, 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2012.699943

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Ding, Hongdi (2022). Language Contact in an Asymmetrical Sociolinguistic Environment: The Case of Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of Sichuan, China.. Elia Dal Corso, Soung-U Kim, Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia (156-192). Leiden: Brill.
Ding, Hongdi , & Mise Rymga (2020). Texts of Niesu, a Southeastern Dialect of Nuosu: Analyzed Spontaneous Narratives and Grammatical Notes. Munchen: Lincom Europa.
Liu, Chengyu, Ding Hongdi, Wang Hong, Yu Lijuan, & Yang, Mingzhong (2014). A multi-case investigation into trilingualism and trilingual education in Liangshan. Feng, A.W. & Adamson, B, Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges (141-171). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

Journal Publications
Ding, H.D., & Zhang, H. (2026). Linguistic Evidence for the Borrowing and Origin of “Matchmaker” in Liangshan Yi. Languages, 11(6), Article 129.
SDGs infomation: 10 - Reduced Inequality
Dong, S.C., *& Ding, H.D. (2026). A typological study of rainfall expressions in Sino-Tibetan languages. Studies in Language, 50(1), 68-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22056.don
SDGs infomation: 10 - Reduced Inequality, 13 - Climate Action
Ding, Hongdi & Dong, Sicong (2024). Colexification of “thunder” and “dragon” in Sino-Tibetan languages. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2024.2383513
Ding, Hongdi & Dong, Sicong (2024). Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan. Language and Linguistics, 25(2), 187-233. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00153.don
丁泓棣、拉玛兹偓 (2024)。凉山彝语的桥接重复：一种口语文化的叙述特点。《语言科学》，23(1)，26-43。
Hongdi, Ding & Sicong, Dong (2023). Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 375. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01877-7
Ding, Hongdi (2023). Phonology of Adur Niesu in Liangshan, Sichuan. Languages., 8(3), 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030164
Ding, Hongdi (2022). Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 45(1), 110-150. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.21007.din
Ding, Hongdi, & Lama, Ziwo (2021). Aspect markings of Niesu, a dialect of Nuosu in Sichuan, China. Himalayan Linguistics, 20(1), 1-27.
Ding, Hongdi (2019). Chinese-dominant bilingualism: Testing the bilingual competence of ethnic Nuosu. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 42(2), 280-322. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.17014.din
Ding, Hongdi (2018). A cross-dialectal analysis of Nuosu adjectival comparative constructions. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 41(1), 45-74. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.16023.din
Ding, Hongdi & Yu, Lijuan (2013). The dilemma: A study of bilingual education policy in Yi minority schools in Liangshan. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 16(4), 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2012.699943

Projects


Colexification of Dragon and Thunder: A Feature of Proto-Sino-Tibetan and the Origin of Dragon This project starts with investigating the current distribution of dragon-thunder colexification in Sino-Tibetan languages. The reasons why modern Sino-Tibetan languages colexify or differentiate dragon and thunder will then be addressed, in terms of the linguistic variables and non-linguistic variables. Lastly, this project will reconstruct the linguistic forms of dragon and thunder at different historical periods to further support the validity of the thunder/lightning origin of dragon. The present project attempts to prove with linguistic evidence from Sino-Tibetan languages that dragon of the Sino-Tibetan region is the mythologized form of thunder and lightning. Project Start Year: 2025, Principal Investigator(s): DING, Hongdi
Tracking the Migration of Northern Yi Speakers from Yunnan to Sichuan, China: A Linguistic Reconstruction Use linguistic evidence to tracking the migration of Northern Loloish Speakers from Yunnan to Sichuan, China Project Start Year: 2025, Principal Investigator(s): DING, Hongdi SDGs Information: 10 - Reduced Inequality, 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Building a Digital Lexical Template to Date Dialectal Split of Sino-Tibetan Languages Lacking Written Record and Trace Human Migration The primary objective is to design and deploy a digital research tool: the Sino-Tibetan Database of Language Splits (漢藏語分化時間數據庫). This platform serves as a structured, collaborative repository with the explicit aim of enabling researchers to: 1. Estimate divergence timelines among dialects of and languages lacking extensive written records. 2. Identify major geographic dispersal centers of speaker communities. 3. Trace likely migration routes based on linguistic evidence. The link to the database is: http://47.113.104.70:8001 Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): DING, Hongdi, LIANG, Yuan SDGs Information: 4 - Quality Education, 10 - Reduced Inequality
A Typological Perspective on Bridging Repetition of Tibeto-Burman Languages n.a. Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): DING, Hongdi