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 SALT paper “Only ‘only’ only: A distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling has just come out!
- I’m very honored to receive LSHK Award for Outstanding Student Paper on Cantonese Linguistics (2024)! My paper title is “Differentiating between evidential bias and epistemic bias in questions: Evidence from Cantonese”. [news]
- Our manuscript “Again, finiteness and split aspect in Chinese languages” is on lingbuzz! [with Yuyang Liu]
- My manuscript “Inner aspect in Cantonese” is now on lingbuzz!
- Our manuscript “Separable verbs in Cantonese” is on lingbuzz! [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
Upcoming talks
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]
2025, Mar 24-28. Right dislocation as multidominance, and beyond. Poster at GLOW-47, Frankfurt & Göttingen. [poster]
2025, Apr 5-6. Biclausal multidominant syntax of right dislocation. PLC-49, UPenn.
2025, Apr 25-27. Diagnosing multidominance by focus association of ‘only’. WCCFL-43, UW. [with Squid Tamar-Mattis]
2025, Apr 25-27. A parametric view on exclusive focus particles. Poster at WCCFL-43, UW.
Recent talks
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]
2024, Dec 13-14. Differentiating between evidential bias and epistemic bias in questions: Evidence from Cantonese. Yue-28, HKMU. [slides]
2024, Dec 13-14. Cantonese exclusive focus marker -dak as perfective aspect. Yue-28, HKMU. [slides]
2024, Dec 13-14. The dissection of Cantonese interjections: an exploration. Yue-28, HKMU. [with Mei-ying Ki]
2024, Dec 8. Why right dislocation must be biclausal. ARF-2024, HKSYU. [handout]
2024, Dec 2. A parametric view on exclusive focus particles. Invited colloquium talk at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
2024, Oct 17-18. Facilitator effects in Mandarin topicalization: Evidence for a crossing-based view of antilocality. NELS-55, Yale. [with Fulang Chen] [handout]