Papers & talks

Papers

Manuscripts

(Comments are welcome!)

• Converbs and adverbial clauses: a case study in Cantonese. Submitted.

• Hyper-raising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation. In revision, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

• An agreement analysis of temporal converbs in Cantonese. In prep.

• Partial deletion at word level: discontinuous predicates in Cantonese. In prep. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE & Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN]

• Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns and partial Copy Deletion. To appear in UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 29.1. [with Comfort Ahenkorah]

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

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

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

Publications

• (2022). Modal movement licensed by focus. In New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in Honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, 165-192. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [pre-printed]

• (2021). Raising, Phase Unlocked. In WCCFL-38, 274-282. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

• (2021). Deriving Separable Verbs in Cantonese. In BEAL-5, 94-104. [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

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

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

• (2020). Generalized Scope Economy. In NACCL-32, 345-360. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]

• (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). 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

2022

1. Rethinking the internal syntax of adverbial clauses and operator movement. CUHK. GLOW in Asia XIII. [with Zhuo CHEN]

2. On the positions of ‘again’: Comparing Cantonese -faan, -gwo with Mandarin you, zai. WOC-22, CUHK. [with Yuyang LIU] [handout]

3. Processing discontinuous predicates in Cantonese. FoCaL-5, CityUHK. [with Carmen Kin Man TANG, Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE & Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN]

4. On Cantonese yes-no question particle aa4: evidential bias and confirmation. Poster at LDSA, Yale. [poster]

5. Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns and partial Copy Deletion. Poster at LSA-96, Washington, DC. [with Comfort Ahenkorah] [poster] [handout]

2021

1. Partial deletion at word-level: discontinuous predicates in Cantonese. BCGL-14, CRISSP of KU Leuven (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE & Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN]

2. (Invited talk) Universal concord as syntactic agreement. Syntax Brown Bag, NYU. [handout]

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

4. 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]

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

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

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

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

9. 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]

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

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

Before 2019

1. 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]

2. Subordinate affixes in Cantonese and intervention effects. IACL-27, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.

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