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.

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]