I’m a 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?
- Fresh manuscript: “Defocus Rephrasing: right dislocation and syntax-prosody mismatches” – comments welcome! [with Xuetong Yuan]
- My JEAL paper on right dislocation “A unified biclausal approach to right dislocation in Chinese” is published! [view-only link]
- My WCCFL-43 paper “A parametric view on exclusive focus particles” is on lingbuzz!
- Our WCCFL-43 paper “Diagnosing multidominance by focus association of ‘only’” (with Squid Tamar-Mattis) is on lingbuzz!
- My GLOW-47 paper “Right dislocation as multidominance, and beyond” is on lingbuzz!
- Our paper on “Cantonese Master Challenge” is published! [paper] [the challenge]
Upcoming talks
2025, Oct 17-19. Exclusive focus in Akan and type flexibility. Poster at NELS-56, NYU. [with Comfort Ahenkorah]
2025, Oct 20. Parameterizing ‘only’. SURGE, Rutgers.
2025, Dec 5-7. Converging and diverging variations in metaphorization of light verbs: A corpus study on four Chinese speech communities. PACLIC-39, VIASM, Hanoi, Vietnam. [with Yaxuan Ji, Dicky Ko, Thomas Ho & Benjamin K. Tsou]
2026, Jan 8-11. Varieties in scalarity of exclusives. LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2026, Jan 8-11. Does the Williams Cycle apply to Mandarin Chinese? LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. [with Fulang Chen] [abstract]
Recent talks
2025, Sep 23-27. Asymmetric reconstruction for binding but not for scope. SuB-30, Frankfurt. [with Yusuke Yagi] [handout]
2025, Sep 10-12. Exclusive focus in Akan and type flexibility. TripleA-12, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. [with Comfort Ahenkorah] [slides]
2025, Aug 12. Semantic dependency between focus particles in exclusive doubling. SynSem, NUS, Singapore. [slides]
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]
Less recent but still good
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Slides on “The structural matching effects in adverbial and converbal clauses”. (Guest lecture, NTHU, 2025)
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Handout on “Parametric variations in discontinuous predicates in Sinitic languages”. (TEAL-14, USC, 2025) [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
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Paper on “Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation”. (NLLT, 2024) [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]