IN LOVE WITH LANGUAGES

A keen student of linguistics has just had his first work published by Oxford University Press, Yang Yang reports.

When Hu Xuhui went from China to the University of York in Britain to pursue the master's degree in linguistics in 2006, he was upset to find that he had to study the difficult theories of US linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, which he had been influenced to "oppose" to throughout his domestic linguistic education.

However, after half-a-year's hard work, Hu's interest in language, nurtured when he was a boy, was revitalized by Chomsky's theories.