Professor Peppina Lee joined the Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) as a Professor at the School of Education and Languages in January 2023. Before joining HKMU, she was an Associate Professor and concurrently served as Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education and Quality Assurance) of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, and prior to that, an Associate Professor at the Macao Polytechnic Institute (Macao Polytechnic University from 2022). Professor Lee specializes in theoretical linguistics, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, Chinese and Cantonese linguistics. She has completed more than ten external and internal research projects as Principal Investigator, and has published or co-edited three books. Her publications also include a number of research papers in refereed journals, such as Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and the Human Sciences, ZhongguoYuwen (Studies of the Chinese Language), Dangdai Yuyanxue (Contemporary Linguistics), Chinese Teaching in the World (Shijie Hanyu Jiaoxue).

• Theoretical syntax and semantics
• Chinese and Cantonese linguistics
• Dialectal grammar
• Pedagogical grammar
• Contrastive studies of Chinese and English grammar

• Co-Investigator (with Bit-chee KWOK). A study of classifiers and related noun phrases in the Shantou Southern Min dialect. (Jan 2021- June 2024) Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (GRF, HKSAR).

• Principal Investigator (with Paul LAW as Co-Investigator). The Landscape of Chinese Quantifiers --- with Special Reference to Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. (2014 - 2016) Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (GRF, HKSAR).

• Principal Investigator. Universal Quantification in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. (2012 – 2016) Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (GRF, HKSAR).

• Principal Investigator.  A Semantic Investigation of Post-verbal Particles and Information Packaging in Cantonese. (2010 – 2013) Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (GRF, HKSAR).

• (2019 – Present) Editorial Board member, Journal of Linguistics, published by Cambridge University Press.
• (2022 – Present) Editorial Board member, Book series “Trends in Contemporary Linguistics”, published by Shanghai Educational Publishing House.
• (2022 – Present) Executive Secretary, International Association of Chinese Linguistics.
• (2020 – 2021) President, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong .