Papers
Manuscripts
(Comments are most welcome!)
Resubmitted, Language and Linguistics. Epistemic indefinites in Cantonese: a case study of ‘m-zi’ (not-know).
In revision. The privileged status of phases: licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese.[with Victor Junnan Pan]
In prep. Partial deletion on head chains: discontinuous predicates in Cantonese [with Ka-Fai Yip].
Publications
Books
- 2024 . The Unity of Movement: evidence from verb movement in Cantonese. John Benjamins Publishing.
Journal papers
Accepted. Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
2023 . Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 32(4): 459-495.
2021 . Asymmetries in doubling and Cyclic Linearization. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 30:109-139.
2020 . Defending the notion of defocus in Cantonese. Current Research in Chinese Linguistics 99(1): 137-152.
2017 . Defocalization in Cantonese right dislocation. Gengo Kenkyu 152: 59-87.
Book chapters
- 2022 . Modal movement licensed by focus, in New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, ed. Andrew Simpson. Amsterdam:John Benjamins [with Ka-Fai Yip].
Proceedings
To appear . Focus Intervention Effects of verb movement in Cantonese, NACCL-34.
To appear . Last but not least: right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian, WAFL 16.
To appear . Licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese (with Victor Junnan Pan), WCCFL-40.
2023 . ATB-movement and Parasitic Gaps: from the perspective of head movement, PLC-46.
2022 . Genuinely tenseless: encoding time in Cantonese, SALT-32. [with Roumyana Pancheva, and Maria Luisa Zubizarrata]
2022 . Discontinuous predicates as partial deletion in Cantonese, PLC-45. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
2021 . Movement of quantificational heads, NELS 51.
2021 . Deriving separable verbs in Cantonese, BEAL 5. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
2021 . Raising, phase unlocked, WCCFL 38. (with Ka-Fai Yip)
2021 . Verb doubling and Cyclic Linearization, WCCFL 38.
2021 . Right dislocation of verbs in Cantonese: A case of head movement to specifier. Yue 21.
2021 . Specific unknowns: A case study of epistemic indefinites in Cantonese. LSA 2021.
2020 . Hyperraising and evidentiality. SICOGG 22. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
2020 . Strength in deontic modals as acceptability and optimality, NACCL-32.
2020 . Generalized Scope Economy. NACCL-32. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
2020 . Expressing ignorance beyond the nominal domain in Japanese: a comparative view. JK 26.
2019 . Quantifier-Raising a head. GLOW in Asia 12 & SICOGG 21.
2019 . Head movement with semantic effects: Aspectual verb raising in Cantonese. LSA 93.
2018 . Deontic modality in Japanese: Positioning the expressions of recommendation. JK 25. [with Tony Tsz-Fung Lau]
2018 . Epistemic indefinites and reportative indefinites in Cantonese. PACLIC 32. [with Hok Yuen Wong]
Theses/Dissertations
2022 . Towards the unity of movement: implications from verb movement in Cantonese. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California.
2017 . Focus and defocus in Cantonese right dislocation and its syntactic derivation. MA thesis, Kyoto University.