Talks
Recent and upcoming (and slides)
2023, August 20. 凝望粵語:藏在腦袋內的語言知識. Public talk. 學識 Hok6. Invited. [slides] [YouTube link]
2023, August 14-16. A structural account on the non-uniform information structure in right dislocation. SICOGG 25. [poster]
2023, June 24. An emerging type of relative clauses in Cantonese. WOC-23. [slides]
2023, June 13. VP ellipsis in disguise: uncovering VP ellipsis in Japanese. Osaka University. Invited.
2023, May 12 - 14. The division of labor in Japanese clausal and predicate ellipsis. TEAL-13. [slides]
2023, May 12 - 14. Stay alone, move together: deriving embedded reduced questions in Chakhar Mongolian. TEAL-13. [poster]
2022
Separable words in Cantonese and their implications on movement theories [delivered in Mandarin]. Yufa Salon, Fudan University. [slides]
A structural account on the non-uniform information structure of right dislocation. LSHK-ARF 2022. [slides]
Last but not least: Right dislocation in Mongolian. WAFL 16. [slides]
Focus Intervention Effects of verb movement in Cantonese. NACCL 34. [slides]
Linearizing syntactic movement: when Economy compromises. CityU Research Forum. [slides] [Video link]
No tense: a bi-contextual evaluation approach to temporal reference. GLOW in Asia XIII. [with Roumyana Pancheva, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta] [slides]
Revisiting the tense semantics in perfective suffixes in Cantonese. WOC 22. [with Roumyana Pancheva, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta]
Genuinely tenseless: encoding time in Cantonese. SALT 32. [with Roumyana Pancheva, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta]
「廣東話達人挑戰」四「萬」八方嘅回應——大眾對粵語語言學嘅認知. FoCaL-5. [with 黎奕葆、陳啟禮、祁美瑩、劉擇明、黃錦鵬、黃學轅、葉家煇]
Processing discontinuous predicate in Cantonese. FoCaL-5. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan, Carmen Tang]
Processing discontinuous predicate in Cantonese. WICL 6. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan, Carmen Tang]
Separable verbs as partial deletion in Cantonese. IACL 28. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
Licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese. WCCFL 40. [with Victor Junnan Pan]
Genuinely tenseless: encoding time in Cantonese. PLC 46. [with Roumyana Pancheva, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta]
ATB-movement and Parasitic Gaps: from the perspective of head movement. PLC 46.
2021
Partial deletion at word-level: discontinuous predicates in Cantonese. BCGL-14. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
Head dependencies across coordination and subordination. LSHK-ARF.
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation. WFL 13. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese. NACCL 33. [with Victor Junnan Pan]
Separable verbs as partial deletion in Cantonese. NACCL 33. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
Discontinuous predicates in Cantonese as partial deletion. USC Syntax+/ UCLA SynSem.
Licensing VP movement in Mandarin and Cantonese. UConn LingLunch.
Modality in the nominal domain: expressing ignorance in indefinites. Yale Semantics Reading Group.
Deriving separable verbs in Cantonese. BEAL 4. Online. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
Verbal “infixation” as partial deletion: a case in Cantonese verbs. PLC 45. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
Separable verbs, syllable deletion, and micro-variations. phex 11. [with Ka-Fai Yip, Sheila Shu-Laam Chan]
Licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese. SCAMS 2020-2021.
Movement of quantificational heads. SMircle, Stanford University (online). Invited.
Specific unknowns: a case study of epistemic indefinites in Cantonese. LSA 2021.
2020
Indirect evidence as a licensing condition of hyperraising in Cantonese and Vietnamese. BCGL 13. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Movement of quantificational heads. NELS 51.
Strength in deontic modals as acceptability and optimality. NACCL-32.
Generalized Scope Economy. NACCL 32. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Hyperraising and evidentiality. SICOGG 22. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Generalized Scope Economy. SICOGG 22. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Syllable deletion and morphological length in Cantonese verbs, at FoCaL-3.
Cantonese classifiers at the syntax-semantics interface, at WOC-20.
M-zi ‘not-know’ in Cantonese as an epistemic marker, at WICL 5.
Zero-coded passives in Cantonese, at WICL 5. [with Sheila Shu-Laam Chan and Ka-Fai Yip]
Verb doubling and Cyclic Linearization, at WCCFL 38.
Raising, phase unlocked. WCCFL-38, UBC. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
2019
M-zi ‘not-know’ in Cantonese as an epistemic marker. ARF 2019.
Sentence-initial root modals and focus. ARF 2019. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Quantifier-Raising a head. GLOW in Asia 12 & SICOGG 21.
Two classes of doxastic attitudes verbs. FoCaL-2. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Strength in possibility modals: From weak necessity to strong possibility. IACL 27.
Head movement with semantic effects: Aspectual verb raising in Cantonese. LSA 93.
2018
Decomposing wh-expressions in Cantonese. CSS 11. [with Hok-Yuen Wong]
Epistemic indefinites and reportative indefinites in Cantonese. PACLIC 32. [with Hok-Yuen Wong]
Two subclasses of verbs of thinking in Cantonese, ARF 2018. [with Ka-Fai Yip]
Expressing ignorance beyond the nominal domain in Japanese: a comparative view. JK 26.
Strength in possibility modals: From weak necessity to strong possibility. NASSLLI 2018.
2017
Defending the notion of defocus in Cantonese. Yue 22.
Deontic modality in Japanese: Positioning the recommendation-type modal expressions. JK 25. [withTony Tsz-Fung Lau]
2016
- Right dislocation of verb in Cantonese - A case of head movement to specifier. Yue 21.
2015
- A study on periphery of Japanese and Cantonese. Yue 20.