Journal Papers
| 2019 | The progressive as a polarity item (non-)licenser: A crosslinguistic study. |
Wai Guo Yu [Journal of Foreign Languages] 42(3) [Link] |
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| 2019 | Degree intensifiers as expressives in Mandarin Chinese [with Qiongpeng LUO as 2nd author]. |
Language and Linguistics 20(2): 256–281 [Link] |
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| 2018 | Epistemological classifiers and concealed questions in Acehnese. |
Studia Linguistica 72(2): 297-321 [Link] |
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| 2016 | Compare within and between groups: The interpretation of weak generic sentences. |
Open Linguistics 1:2:1-22 [link] | ||
| 2015 | Non-root modals for the past and temporal shifting in Mandarin Chinese. |
Lingua Sinica 1:2:1-22 [link] | ||
| 2015 | Empirical properties and semantic analyses of concealed questions. (NB: written in Chinese). |
Contemporary Linguistics (当代语言学)17(1):23-34 [Pre-Pub | ||
| 2014 | The degree use of the possessive verb yǒu in Mandarin Chinese: A unified analysis and its theoretical implications. |
Journal of East Asian Linguistics 23(2):113-156 [link] | ||
| 2014 | Where is the standard? An analysis of size adjectives as degree modifiers at the semantic-pragmatic interface. | Language and Linguistics15(4):513-538 [link] | ||
| 2013 |
Focus, (non-)exhaustivity, and intervention effects in wh-in-situ argument questions. | The Linguistic Review 30(4): 585–617 (link) | ||
| 2012 | The modal uses of de and temporal shifting in Mandarin Chinese. | Journal of East Asian Linguistics 21(4): 387-420 (link) |
Book Chapters
| 2015 |
Strict comparison and weak necessity: The case of epistemic yao in Mandarin Chinese. | Lecture Notes in Computer Science(vol.9067), eds. Murata, T., K. Mineshima, and D. Bekki. 130–143 (PDF) | ||
| 2014 |
The yú Comparative Construction in Mandarin Chinese. | Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics (vol.10), ed. Piñón,C. 143–160 (PDF) |
Proceedings Papers
| to appear |
Chinese speaking learners’ bound variable interpretations in L2 Japanese: A preliminary study. [with Mineharu Nakayama as 1st author] | Proceedings of the 28th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics | ||
| 2018 |
Degrees as nominalized properties: Evidence from differential verbal comparatives in Mandarin Chinese [with Qiongpeng LUO as 1st author]. | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 [ZAS Papers in Linguistics 60/61].[PDF] |
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| 2016 |
Exhaustifyng the focus intervention effect: A crosslinguistic study. | Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society:317-332.[PDF] | ||
| 2015 | Weak generic sentences: Partitioning and comparison. | Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society:507-522.[PDF] | ||
| 2014 | An epistemic modal for strict comparison in Mandarin Chinese. | Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics.[PDF] | ||
| 2012 | A two-layer analysis of ability modality: A case study of able to. | Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: 655-668.[Link] | ||
| 2011 | Degree possession is a subset relation (as well). | Proceedings of the 15th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference: 661-676.[PDF] | ||
| 2011 | The possessive equative sentence in Mandarin: Its relation to possession and existence. | Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VIII: 353-360.[PDF] | ||
| 2011 | Ambiguity in the ‘non-root modal + PERF’ construction Revisited. | Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics: 205-213.[PDF] | ||
| 2010 | Concealed questions from a cross-linguistic perspective. | University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics16(1): 252-264. [PDF] | ||
| 2010 | The other pole of degree modification of gradable nouns: A Mandarin Chinese perspective. | Proceedings of the 12th Int’l Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics: 245-256.[PDF] | ||
| 2008 | Non-veridicality and existential polarity wh-phrases in Mandarin. | Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: 121-135.[PDF] | ||
| 2007 | On the semantics of modal particle de in Mandarin. | Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium: 241-246.[PDF] | ||
| 2007 | Licensing existential polarity wh-phrases in Mandarin Chinese. | Proceedings of the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop: 37-43.[PDF] |