I’m a linguist. 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 dissertation is “Doubling Down on Exclusivity: Issues at the Syntax-Semantics Interface” now online! (also on lingbuzz)
- My joint paper with Fulang Chen “Does the Williams Cycle apply to Mandarin Chinese?” has been published in LSA-2026 proceedings.
- I co-authored a paper “Pragmatic skill modulates sensitivity to phonetic cues to prominence, especially pitch-based cues” with Jason Bishop, Mei-Ying Ki, and Chen Zhou, recently published in Labphon.
- The course materials on Cantonese syntax at EACL 13th Summer school in Chinese Linguistics are available here (handouts; readings).
Upcoming presentations
2026, Sep 2-4. A scalar focus approach to exclusive doubling in Vietnamese. SuB-31, Nantes.
2026, Oct 7. TBA. Invited ChiLL talk, Leiden University.
2026, Oct 16-18. Syntax below words: verbal suffixation in Chinese. NELS-57, CUNY. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
Recent presentations
2026, Jun 3-5. Only Exclusive Doubling in Thai. SEALS-35, NTU. [with Woraprat Manowang] [handout]
2026, Jun 5-6. Sentence-final negation questions from a comparative perspective. TEAL-15, CUHK. [with Zhuo Chen and Jiahui Huang†].
2026, Jun 26-28. 同中存異：泛華語地區動詞虛化比較研究. IFOLCE-9, CityUHK. [with Benjamin K. Tsou & Thomas Ho]
2026, May 21-23. A partial Copy Deletion account of non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in Yorùbá. ACAL-57, Buffalo. [with Bode Adedeji] [handout]
2026, May 21-23. Defending a quantifier-particle approach to Yorùbá exclusives. ACAL-57, Buffalo. [with Bode Adedeji] [handout]
2026, May 30. A preliminary study on syntactic variation between Saigon and Hong Kong Cantonese. WOC-26, CiyUHK. [with My Thi Ha]
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]