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?
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Upcoming talks
2026, Feb 26-27. Two types of exclusive doubling in Vietnamese. The 6th annual meeting of International Symposium of Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL 6), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
2026, Feb 28-Mar 1. Revisiting Parallel Chains: a long road to repetition. PLC-50, UPenn. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
2026, Mar 13-15. Revisiting Parallel Chains: a long road to repetition. The 2nd GLOW in Asia Workshop for Young Scholars, Nanzan. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
2026, May 21-23. A partial Copy Deletion account of non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in Yorùbá. ACAL-57, Buffalo. [with Olabode Adedeji]
2026, May 21-23. Defending a quantifier-particle approach to Yorùbá exclusives. ACAL-57, Buffalo. [with Olabode Adedeji]
Recent talks
2026, Jan 8-11. Varieties in scalarity of exclusives. LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. [handout]
2026, Jan 8-11. Does the Williams Cycle apply to Mandarin Chinese? LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. [with Fulang Chen] [handout]
2025, Dec 18-19. Intervention effects are not uniform: evidence from exclusive doubling in Cantonese. ICFAMC-4, CUHK. [slides]
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] [paper]
Less recent but still pretty 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]