Talks

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Only ‘only’ only: a distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling. SALT-34, Rochester. [slides]
Exclusive focus particles in Yorùbá. ACAL-55, McGill. [with Olabode Adedeji] [handout]
A tale of two types of exclusive doubling in Vietnamese. SEALS-33, NTHU, Taiwan. [handout]
Biclausal multidominant syntax of right dislocation in Chinese. NYU Syntax Brown Bag. [handout]
Agreement in imperative clauses: evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. Poster at NELS-54, MIT. [with Xuetong Yuan] [poster] [handout]
Right dislocation, defocus, and variations in syntax-prosody mapping. Phex-15, Tonjo. [with Xuetong Yuan] [slides]
Teasing apart the prosodic effects of focus and of defocus: syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocation. Poster at LabPhon-19, HYU, Korea. [with Xuetong Yuan] [poster]
Variation of sibilant palatalization in homeland and heritage Cantonese. Poster at LabPhon-19, HYU, Korea. [with Yanting Li, Xiao Dong & Gareth Junjie Yang]

Agreeing with ‘only’. WCCFL-41, UCSC. [handout]
A compositional account of “only” doubling. Invited talk at Syntax-Semantics Reading Group LFRG, MIT. [handout]
Are there weak definites in bare classifier languages?. SALT-33, Yale. [with Ushasi Banerjee & Margaret Chui Yi Lee] [slides] [handout]
Defocus leads to syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocated structures. CLS-59, UChicago. [with Xuetong Yuan]
(In)dependence of features on composite probes. Poster at NELS-53, Uni Göttingen. [with Magdalena Lohninger] [poster] [handout]
On the Rising-Falling boundary tone in Cantonese. Yue-27, OSU (online). [with Mei-ying Ki] [slides]

Rethinking the internal syntax of adverbial clauses and operator movement. CUHK. GLOW in Asia XIII. [with Zhuo CHEN]
Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns and partial Copy Deletion. Poster at LSA-96, Washington, DC. [with Comfort Ahenkorah] [poster] [handout]
High vs. low ‘again’: Mandarin you vs. zai and Cantonese -faan vs. -gwo. BEAL-5, OSU. [with Yuyang LIU] [handout]
On Cantonese yes-no question particle aa4: evidential bias and confirmation. Poster at LDSA, Yale. [poster]
Processing discontinuous predicates in Cantonese. FoCaL-5, CityUHK. [with Carmen Kin Man TANG, Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE & Sheila Shu-Laam CHAN]

Converbs and adverbial clauses: a case study in Cantonese. NACCL-33, Uchicago (online). [paper version]
Two types of temporal adverbial clauses in Cantonese. Poster at WCCFL-39, UArizona (online). [poster] [handout]
Universal concord as syntactic agreement. Invited talk at Syntax Brown Bag, NYU. [handout]
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]
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]
Differential metaphorization and grammaticalization in Chinese light verbs. SLE 2021, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU] [OSF]
MSC variations in metaphorization among Pan-Chinese speech communities. NACCL-33, Uchicago (online). [with Benjamin K. TSOU] [slides]
CanTONEse (Android/iOS), an app for learning Cantonese tones. Invited talk at School of Cantonese Studies, EdUHK (online). [with Mei-ying Ki & Yik-Po Lai]
Exclusive focus in Yoruba. SNEWS 2021, UConn (online). [handout]

Indirect evidence as a licensing condition of hyperraising in Cantonese and Vietnamese. BCGL-13, CRISSP of KU Leuven (online). [with Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE] [paper version]
On the position of perfective aspect. ARF-2020. CUHK (online). [handout]
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]
How to identify intonations on sentence-final particles? WOC-20, HKBU (online). [with Him Nok LEE] [slides]

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]
Subordinate affixes in Cantonese and intervention effects. IACL-27, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.
Cantonese verbal suffix dak and intentionality. WICL-4, UBC. [slides]