Sze-Wing Tang's research interests lie primarily in natural language syntax and parametric approaches to comparative grammar with a special focus on the syntax of Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua) and Cantonese, syntactic differences among Chinese dialects, and syntactic differences between Chinese and English.
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4375-5967
Web of Science ResearcherID: T-2739-2018
Academic Information Management System: AIMS
He worked on comparative syntax under the principles-and-parameters approach in his doctoral dissertation. The title of his dissertation is Parametrization of Features in Syntax, which is available for distribution from UMI. A copy of it can be downloaded from ProQuest
Some specific topics that Sze-Wing is currently working on include:
- syntax of the sentence-final expressions in a cross-linguistic perspective,
- cartographic syntax of Chinese, and
- micro-parametric variation of functional categories.