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. At present, I hold five degrees. The latest one is a PhD degree for which I have done some research on 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.

LINKS

• My Chinese Homepage
• Ka-fat CHOW's Blog
• Acknowledgement and Disclaimer
• Mastermind Link Page
• A Chronology of the Ruling Parties in the World
• A Chronology of World Political History
• Online Game - Lines
• Online Game - Tetris
• Online Game - Reversi

DEGREES

AWARD

SOME OF MY ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH

RESEARCH OUTPUT

• 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 - Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6953/2011, pp. 61-73, Berlin: Springer (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) (author-final version)
• "Monotonicity and Scalar Reasoning" (in Chinese) in Jiang, Y. (ed.): Approaching Formal Pragmatics, pp. 122-174, Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House (2011) (author-final version)
• "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, pp. 263-275, Basel: Birkhauser / Springer (2012) (author-final version)
• "Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences" in Aloni, M. et al (eds), Logic, Language and Meaning - Proceedings of the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7218/2012, pp. 281-290, Berlin: Springer (2012) (author-final version)
• "A Scalar Model Interpretation for Subjective Quantity" (in Chinese), Chinese Language Learning, 2012:4, pp. 29-38 (2012)
• Inferential Patterns of Generalized Quantifiers and their Applications to Scalar Reasoning, Ph.D thesis, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2012)

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