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, 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 30. Against a syntactic approach to wh-rhetorical questions — with special focus on Cantonese (and Vietnamese). Colloquium talk at National Tsing Hua University.
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.
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]
Recent talks
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]
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]