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 draft “Only ‘only’ only: A distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling” is now on lingbuzz!
- Our manuscript “A quantifier-particle approach to exclusive focus particles in Yorùbá” is now on lingbuzz! [with Olabode Adedeji]
- Our manuscript “Partial Deletion on head chains: Discontinuous predicates in Cantonese” is on lingbuzz! [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
- Our NLLT paper “Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation” is published! [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
Upcoming talks
2024, Dec 2. A parametric view on exclusive focus particles. Invited colloquium talk at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
2024, Dec 13-14. Cantonese exclusive focus marker -dak as perfective aspect. Yue-28, HKMU.
2024, Dec 13-14. The dissection of Cantonese interjections: an exploration. Yue-28, HKMU. [with Mei-ying Ki]
2025, Mar 18-20. Parametric variations in discontinuous predicates in Sinitic languages. TEAL-14, USC. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
Recent talks
2024, Oct 17-18. Facilitator effects in Mandarin topicalization: Evidence for a crossing-based view of antilocality. NELS-55, Yale. [with Fulang Chen] [handout]
2024, May 28-30. Only ‘only’ only: a distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling. SALT-34, Rochester. [slides]
2024, May 2-4. Exclusive focus particles in Yorùbá. ACAL-55, McGill. [with Olabode Adedeji] [handout]
2024, Apr 10. Defocus Rephrasing: right dislocation and syntax-prosody mapping. SBU Linguistics Brown Bag. Stony Brook. [with Xuetong Yuan] [slides]
2024, Mar 1. Biclausal multidominant syntax of right dislocation in Chinese. NYU Syntax Brown Bag. [handout]