1. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
President Report 2003
Sze-Wing Tang

2. 1. Development Membership Total new members: 20
Life members: 3 (upgraded)
Regular members: 5
Affiliated members: 3
Student members: 9
Total new members: 20

3. 2. Activities 2.1. Study group
Reading group on a paper by Richard Kayne on noun phrases
(July 25, 2003)

4. 2.2. Cantonese romanization
Jyutping Promotion Group
A textbook on Cantonese is now being edited.

6. Commercial products
To cooperate with Research In Motion (HK) Limited to implement a Cantonese based input method in handheld computer products.

7. Cantonese romanization projects
‘Standardization of Cantonese Romanization and Building Blocks for Phonetics Based Applications’ (ITF project)
‘Recommended List of Chinese Characters and Chinese Lexical Items for Students’ Learning at Primary Level (EMB project).

8. Workshop on romanization and transcription (during ARF 03)

9. 2.3. Outstanding thesis award
MPhil Awardee:
Carmen Ka-Man LEE (HKU)
MA Awardee:
Mei-fung LAI (PolyU)

10. Acknowledgments:
8 anonymous reviewers, &
Cathy WONG

11. 2.4. Constitution amendments
Working group members:
Tony HUNG, Thomas LEE, Sze-Wing TANG, and Cathy WONG

12. 3. Publications
3.1. Second edition of Jyutping handbook

13. 3.2. On-line proceedings of ARF 02
22 papers are collected.

14. 4. Sponsorship Conference (October 31, 2003, HKU)
4th Postgraduate Research Forum on Linguistics
(October 31, 2003, HKU)

15. 5. Financial Situation
Ping JIANG’s financial report

16. 6. Acknowledgments To the sponsor of ARF 2003
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

17. To other ExCom members

18. Thank you!