Papers & talks

Papers

Manuscripts

(Feel free to email me for a draft.)

• Hyper-raising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation. In prep. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

• Unversal concord as syntactic agreement. To appear in UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics.

• Discontinuous predicates as partial deletion in Cantonese. To appear in UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics. [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

• Two types of temporal adverbial clauses in Cantonese. To appear in Proceedings of WCCFL-39. [pre-printed]

• Modal movement licensed by focus. To appear in New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax. Studies in Honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

Publications

• (2020). A corpus-based comparative study of light verbs in three Chinese speech communities. In PACLIC-34, 302-311. [with Benjamin K. TSOU]

• (2020). Bilingual multi-word expressions, multiple-correspondence, and their cultivation from parallel patents: the Chinese-English case. In PACLIC-34, 589-602. [with Benjamin K. TSOU, Ka Po CHOW, John LEE, Yaxuan JI & Kevin WU]

• (2020). Syntax-prosody mapping of right-dislocations in Cantonese and Mandarin. In Phonological Externalization (Vol. 5), 73-90.

• (2020). 粵語動詞後綴“親”的三個框式結構[Three discontinuous constructions of Cantonese verbal suffix can] (written in Chinese). Current Research in Chinese Linguistics 99(1):153-169.

Presentations

2021

1. Universal concord as syntactic agreement. WFL-13, Auditório do Instituto de Letras, Universidade de Brasília (online). [handout]

2. Hyper-raising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation. WFL-13, Auditório do Instituto de Letras, Universidade de Brasília (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [slides]

3. Differential metaphorization and grammaticalization in Chinese light verbs. SLE 2021, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU] [OSF]

4. Concord as syntactic agreement: evidence from intervention effects. Poster at CGG-30, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (online). [poster] [handout]

5. 何處是粵語口語和書面語語料的分水嶺——從LIVAC談起 [Where is the dividing line between spoken and written Cantonese data source: from the LIVAC perspective]. WOC-21, EdUHK (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU & Yaxuan JI]

6. Converbs and adverbial clauses: a case study in Cantonese. NACCL-33, Uchicago (online). [handout]

7. Separable verbs as partial deletion in Cantonese. NACCL-33, Uchicago (online). [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout] [slides]

8. MSC variations in metaphorization among Pan-Chinese speech communities. NACCL-33, Uchicago (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU] [slides]

9. Differential metaphorization and grammaticalization: a case study of Chinese light verbs. RaAM-14, Vilnius, Lithuania. [slides]

10. (Invited talk) CanTONEse (Android/iOS), an app for learning Cantonese tones. School of Cantonese Studies, EdUHK (online). [with Mei-ying KI & Yik-Po LAI]

11. Exclusive focus in Yoruba. SNEWS 2021, UConn (online). [handout]

12. Syntax-prosody mapping of right dislocation: a comparative study of Cantonese and Mandarin. Award presentation at ICPG-7, BLCU & TJU, China. [paper] [Young Scholar Award for Prosodic Grammar, First Place]

13. Two types of temporal adverbial clauses in Cantonese. Poster at WCCFL-39, UArizona (online). [poster] [handout]

14. Universal concord as syntactic agreement. PLC-45, UPenn (online). [handout]

15. Verbal “infixation” as partial deletion: a case in Cantonese verbs. PLC-45, UPenn (online). [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout] [slides]

16. Two types of temporal adverbial clauses in Cantonese. BEAL-4, OSU (online). [handout]

17. Deriving separable verbs in Cantonese. BEAL-4, OSU (online). [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout] [slides]

18. Separable verbs, syllable deletion, and micro-variations. Phex-11, Sapporo University (online). [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout] [slides]

2020

1. Indirect evidence as a licensing condition of hyperraising in Cantonese and Vietnamese. BCGL-13, CRISSP of KU Leuven (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout] [slides]

2. On the position of perfective aspect. ARF-2020. CUHK (online). [handout]

3. 漢語動詞虛化初探：港澳京三地同中之異[A preliminary study on metaphorization of Chinese verbs: comparing Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing]. ARF-2020. CUHK (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU & Yaxuan JI] [slides] [samples]

4. CanTONEse: a self-learning mobile app for Cantonese tones. Yue 24, University of Macau (online). [with Mei-ying KI & Yik-Po LAI] [slides] [App Android/iOS]

5. Bilingual multi-word expressions, multiple-correspondence, and their cultivation from parallel patents: the Chinese-English case. PACLIC-34 Workshop on MWEA, VNU University of Science, Hanoi (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU, Ka Po CHOW, John LEE, Yaxuan JI & Kevin WU] [paper]

6. A corpus-based comparative study of light verbs in three Chinese speech communities. PACLIC-34, VNU University of Science, Hanoi (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU] [slides] [paper]

7. (Invited talk) Universal Concord as Syntactic Agreement. Syntax+, USC (online). [handout]

8. Generalized Scope Economy. NACCL-32, UConn (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout]

9. Generalized Scope Economy. SICOGG-22, Gyeongsang National University (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout]

10. Hyperraising and evidentiality. SICOGG-22, Gyeongsang National University (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout]

11. Facilitating the self-learning of Cantonese: an innovative e-approach. CUHK Expo 2019/20, CUHK (online). [with Pit Shun LAI & Yik-Po LAI]

12. Syllable Deletion and Morphological Length in Cantonese Verbs. FoCaL-3, HSUHK. [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout]

13. How to identify intonations on sentence-final particles? WOC-20, HKBU (online). [with Him Nok LEE] [slides]

14. Zero-coded passives in Cantonese. WICL-5, OSU (online). [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [handout]

15. The prosodic syntax of right dislocation in Cantonese. WICL-5, OSU (online). [slides]

16. Raising, phase unlocked. WCCFL-38, UBC. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [poster]

17. Syntax-prosody mapping in clausal domains: right dislocation in Mandarin and Cantonese. Phex 10, The University of Tokyo. [slides] [paper]

2019

1. 粵語易位句的韻律句法研究[The prosodic syntax of right dislocation in Cantonese]. ARF-2019, EdUHK.

2. Sentence-initial root modals and focus. ARF-2019, EdUHK. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

3. Universal Concord: Evidence from Cantonese pseudo affixal quantifier -can. 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute poster session, UC Davis. [poster]

4. 澄海閩語中的言說動詞[Verbs of saying in Chenghai Min]. IRF-5, Sun Yat-sen University. [with Jia JIN] [slides]

5. Attitude verbs, uncertain propositions and hyper-raising. FoCaL-2, EdUHK.

6. 粵語動詞後綴嘅重新分類[Re-classifying Cantonese verbal suffixes]. FoCaL-2, EdUHK.

7. Subordinate affixes in Cantonese and intervention effects. IACL-27, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. [slides]

8. 粵語從句詞綴初探[A preliminary study on subordinate affixes in Cantonese]. Yue 23, Jinan University.

9. Two subclasses of verbs of thinking in Cantonese. ARF-2018, CityUHK. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

2018

1. 粵語詞綴「親」的複句完句現象[Complex sentence formation of Cantonese affix can]. ICFL-8, Zhejiang University.

2. Cantonese verbal suffix dak and intentionality. WICL-4, UBC. [slides]

2017

1. 粵語動詞後綴「親」的三個框式結構[Three discontinuous constructions of Cantonese verbal suffix can]. Yue 22, EdUHK. [paper]

2. 粵語表示意向的動詞後綴「得」[A study of Cantonese intentional verbal suffix dak]. ARF-2017, HKBU.

2015

1. 粵語量詞「陣」的語法特點[Properties of Cantonese classifier zan]. Yue 20, CUHK.