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张洪年教授，江苏镇江人。1946年生于上海。1947年随父母移居香港。1967年毕业于香港中文大学，1969年取得中文大学文学硕士。后赴美国加州大学伯克利分校深造，1974年获博士学位。留校任教，前后共26年，1997年至1998年出任该校东方语言文学系系主任。
2000年冬在加州大学伯克利分校退休，后转到香港科技大学任人文学部教授兼学部主任。他也曾在美国俄勒冈大学、香港大学及香港浸会大学短期任教。2011–2014年，曾任《中国文化研究所学报》编辑委员会主席。
除粤语外，张教授也写过关于镇江方言
1.“Naming the City: Language Complexity in the Making of an 1866 Map of Hong Kong.” to appear in Linguistic Essays in Honor of Professor Tsu-lin Mei on his 80th Birthday, Commercial Press. 37 pages. 。
2.“Cantonese Made Easy: Sentence-final particles in early Cantonese.” Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 3.2. Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics, & HK University of Science & Technology. 2009. pp. 131-169. 。
3.“Retribution in the stories of Sanyan in 《重读经典：中国传统小说戏曲的多重透视》, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. 2009. pp. 251-269.
4.《香港粤语语法的研究》 增订版 . (A Grammar of Cantonese Spoken in Hong Kong, Revised Edition) 2007. 中文大学出版社 . 440 pages. 。
5.“Where did THAT come from? The Historical Development of the Demonstrative in Early Cantonese.” Linguistic Studies in Chinese and Neighboring Languages:Festschriftin Honor of Professor Ting Panghsin on his 70th Birthday, Taiwan: Academia Sincia. 2006. pp. 813-835.
6.“One Language, Two Systems: A Phonological Study of Two Cantonese Language Manuals of 1888.” Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 1.1. Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics, & HK University of Science & Technology. 2006. pp. 71-200.
7.〈 21 世纪的香港粤语：一个新语音系统的形成〉 《第八届国际粤方言研究会论文集》129-152. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Science, 2003.
8〈《碾玉观音》中的观音故事〉In 《明清文学与性别研究》, ed. by Hongsheng Zhang. 284-293. Nanjing: Jiangsu guji chubanshe, 2002.
9.“The Interrogative Construction: (Re)Constructing Early Cantonese Grammar.” In Sinitic Grammar:synchronicand Diachronic Perspectives, ed. by H. Chappell. 191-231. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
10.〈早期粤语里的借词现象〉 [Loan Words in Early Cantonese]. In Memory of Professor Li Fang-kuei: Essays on Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects, ed. by P.H. Ting & A.O. Yue. 319-337. Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academic Sinica, and Seattle: University of Washington, 2001.