I’m a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. I’m interested in the structure of language and how it relates to meaning and sound. I love cats. I’m a Hong Konger.
What's new?
- My paper “A unified biclausal approach to right dislocation in Chinese” is accepted by Journal of East Asian Linguistics!
- My paper “Inner aspect in Cantonese” is published in FLaP FIRST! Reviews and replies are open access.
- My WCCFL-41 paper “Agreeing with ‘only’” is published!
- Our NELS-55 paper “Facilitator effects in Mandarin topicalization: Evidence for a crossing-based view of anti-locality” (with Fulang Chen) is on lingbuzz!
Upcoming talks
2025, Aug 4-7. Acoustic analysis of sibilant palatalization variation in homeland and heritage Cantonese. NWAV-AP-8. NTU Singapore. [with Yanting Li, Xiao Dong & Gareth Junjie Yang]
2025, Sep 23-27. Asymmetric reconstruction for binding but not for scope. Poster/Alternate talk at SuB-30. [with Yusuke Yagi]
Recent talks
2025, May 24-25. The taxonomy of yes-no question SFPs in Cantonese. The Workshop on Sentence-final Particles in Modern Chinese. University of Macau. [slides]
2025, May 15-17. Are splitting verbs in Yorùbá discontinuous heads? Poster at ACAL-56. [with Bode Adedeji]
2025, May 1. The structural matching effects in adverbial and converbal clauses. Guest lecture at Main Clause Phenomena and the Syntax of Chinese, National Tsing Hua University. [slides]
2025, Apr 30. Against a syntactic approach to wh-rhetorical questions — with special focus on Cantonese (and Vietnamese). Colloquium talk at National Tsing Hua University. [handout]
2025, Apr 25-27. Diagnosing multidominance by focus association of ‘only’. WCCFL-43, UW. [with Squid Tamar-Mattis] [abstract] [handout]
2025, Apr 25-27. A parametric view on exclusive focus particles. Poster at WCCFL-43, UW. [abstract] [poster]
2025, Apr 5-6. Biclausal multidominant syntax of right dislocation. PLC-49, UPenn. [slides] [handout]
2025, Mar 24-28. Backward association of exclusive particles and scope freezing. Short talk at GLOW-47, Frankfurt & Göttingen. [with Daniel Aremu and Bode Adedeji] [handout]
2025, Mar 24-28. Right dislocation as multidominance, and beyond. Poster at GLOW-47, Frankfurt & Göttingen. [poster]
2025, Mar 18-20. Parametric variations in discontinuous predicates in Sinitic languages. TEAL-14, USC. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee] [handout]
2025, Mar 3-4. Scalarity in exclusive doubling. Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Scalarity, Stuttgart. [handout]