Research

[under construction]

Syntax & semantics

Concord

• Universal Concord
  • testing
  • Cantonese｜handout-Syntax+

Adverbial clauses

• Temporal clauses
  • testing
  • Cantonese

• Converbs
  • testing
  • Cantonese｜Mphil thesis (in Chinese)

Hyper-raising

• Hyper-raising and evidentiality [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]
  • testing
  • Cantonese, Vietnamese｜handout-BCGL

Modality

• Modal movement licensed by focus [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]
  • testing
  • Mandarin｜Handout-NACCL

Syntax-phonology interface

Right dislocation

• Right dislocation
  • testing
  • Cantonese, Mandarin｜proceedings-Phex｜slides-WICL

Syllable deletion

• Monosyllabic preference and syllable deletion [with Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN & Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE]
  • testing
  • Cantonese, Mandarin｜handout-Phex

SFPs & intonation

• Intonations on sentence-final particles [with Him Nok LEE]
  • testing
  • Cantonese｜slides-WOC

Corpus linguistics

Metaphorization

• Gradient metaphorization [with Benjamin K. TSOU]
  • testing
  • Chinese

• Variations in metaphorization [with Benjamin K. TSOU & Yaxuan JI]
  • testing
  • Chinese (BJ, HK, TW)｜paper-PACLIC
  • Chinese (BJ, HK, MC)｜slides-ARF (in Chinese)

Other projects

• Aspect
  • With evidence from suffix stacking and scope, I argue that the syntactic position of perfective aspect should be higher than experiential aspect.
  • Mandarin, Yangchun (陽春) Yue｜Handout-ARF

• Verbs of saying [with Jia JIN]
  • We argue that verbs of saying should be divided into two classes, SAY and GIVE-by-saying, which take different direct & indirect objects.
  • Chenghai (澄海) Min｜slides-IRF (in Chinese)

• Cantonese learning [with Mei-ying KI & Yik-Po LAI]
  • An app which assists second-language learning of Cantonese tones.
  • Cantonese｜slides-Yue｜App (For Andriod)