Invited Talks
2015a | Expressive degree intensifiers in Mandarin Chinese. | The 23rd Annual Meeting of International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. Aug. 27. | ||
2015b | The tale of two readings for non-root modals for the past: A case study of Mandarin Chinese. | Shanghai Maritime University College of Foreign Languages, Shanghai, China. June 18. | ||
2015c | Mandarin yào as a restricted epistemic modal for degree comparison. | Ohio University, Institute for the Empirical Study of Language. Apr. 10. | ||
2013 | How can you have a degree? The degree use of the possessive verb yǒu in Mandarin Chinese. |
OSU Department of Linguistics, Mar. 8. | ||
2007 | Dimensions of intervention effects in Mandarin Chinese. | Syracuse University Linguistics Program, Nov. 2. |
Conference Talks
2017a | When an individual classifier classifies events in Mandarin Chinese: A preliminary analysis. | 41st Annual Penn Linguistics Conference, Philadelphia, PA. March 24-26. | ||
2017b | The progressive as an NPI (non-)licenser: A crosslinguistic study. | 43rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA. Feb.3-5 | ||
2016 | Chinese speaking learners’ bound variable interpretations in L2 Japanese. [with Mineharu Nakayama] | 28th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Provo, Utah. May 6-7 | ||
2015a | Choosing among the many theories of “many”: Duo comparative quantifiers in Chinese. [with Qiong-peng Luo] | 10th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan. Jun. 13-14. | ||
2015b | A degree-based analysis of the Differential Verbal Comparative in Chinese. [with Qiong-peng Luo and Miao-ling Hsieh] | 10th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan. Jun. 13-14. | ||
2014 | An epistemic modal for strict comparison in Mandarin Chinese. | 11th International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics. Yokohama, Japan. Nov. 22-24. | ||
2013a | The yú-comparative construction in Chinese: Case assignment and evaluativity. | 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Ann Arbor, MI. Jun. 21-23. | ||
2013b | The degree use of yǒu in Mandarin Chinese: Its structure, meaning and theoretical implications. | 21st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan, Jun. 7-9 [Awarded Young Scholar Award] | ||
2013c | Epistemological classifiers and tu ‘know’ in Acehnese. | 20th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Arlington, TX. May 17-19. | ||
2013d | Exhaustifying the focus intervention effect: A crosslinguistic study. | 39th Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA. Feb. 16-17. | ||
2012a | Mandarin ‘ge’ as an event classifier. | 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. San Francisco, CA. Jun. 8-10. | ||
2012b | Weak generic sentences: Partitioning and comparison. | 38th Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA. Feb.11-12. | ||
2011 | The degree use of size adjectives at the semantic-pragmatic interface. | 2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA. Jan. 6-9. | ||
2010a | Degree possession is a subset relation (as well). | 15th Sinn und Bedeutung. Saarbrucken, Germany. Sept. 9-11. | ||
2010b | ‘Dutchmen are good sailors’: On the interpretation of weak truth conditions generic sentences. [with Liangyue Lu] | 15th Sinn und Bedeutung. Saarbrucken, Germany. Sept. 9-11. | ||
2010c | ‘‘No big No small’ for the degree use of size adjectives in Mandarin: Reality vs. illusion. | 6th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics. Beijing, China. Aug. 15. | ||
2010d | The possessive equative sentence in Mandarin: Its relation to possession and existence. | 8th GLOW in Asia. Beijing, China. Aug. 12-14. | ||
2010e | The other pole of degree modification of gradable nouns by size adjectives: A Mandarin Chinese perspective. | 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan. Jun. 19-21. | ||
2010f | Ambiguity in the ‘non-root modal + PERF’ construction revisited. | 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Los Angeles, CA. Feb. 19-21. | ||
2010g | Fixing the General Minimality Constraint. [with Tswang Rikzen] | 2010 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore, MD. Jan. 7-10. | ||
2010h | A temporal shifting analysis of an ambiguous modal construction in English. | 2010 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore, MD. Jan. 7-10. | ||
2009a | Fixing the General Minimality Constraint. | 4th International Conference on Formal Linguistics. Beijing. China. July 19-21. | ||
2009b | Focus intervention effects: A perspective from Mandarin and Tibetan. | 17th Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Paris. Jul. 2-4. [shortlisted for Young Scholar Award (YSA)] | ||
2009c | A Two-layer analysis of ability modality: A case study of ‘able to’. | 45th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago. IL. April 16-18. | ||
2009d | Concealed questions from a cross-linguistic perspective. | 33rd Penn Linguistic Colloquium. Philadelphia, PA. Mar. 27-29. | ||
2009e | Semantic sensitivity of ‘know’ in Banda Acehnese and concealed questions. | 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA. Jan. 8-11. | ||
2008a | Topic-driven derivation and interpretation of Mandarin verb copying. [with Yao Yao] |
2008 Western Conference on Linguistics. Davis, CA. Nov. 21-23. [poster] | ||
2008b | Intervention effects and quantificational (non-)exhaustivity of focus. | 2008 Western Conference on Linguistics. Davis, CA. Nov. 21-23. | ||
2008c | Still on modality in Mandarin Chinese | Chronos 8: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality. Austin, TX. Oct. 3-5. | ||
2008d | Intervention effects revisited: A perspective from Mandarin Chinese. | 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Columbus, OH. Apr. 25-27. | ||
2008e | Argument-adjunct asymmetry and exceptions in Mandarin Chinese. | 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL. Jan. 3-6. [poster] | ||
2007a | On the semantics of the modal particle ‘de’ in Mandarin Chinese. | 16th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, Holland. Dec. 17-19. | ||
2007b | Wh-argument/adjunct asymmetry and intervention effects in Mandarin Chinese. . | 1st Annual Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle. Tucson, AZ. Oct. 19-21. | ||
2007c | Licensing Existential Polarity Wh-Phrases in Mandarin Chinese. | 7th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Hong Kong, China. May 21-23. | ||
2007d | Non-veridicality and existential polarity wh-phrases in Mandarin Chinese. | 43rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago. IL. May 3-5. | ||
2007e | The Semantics of ‘de’ as a modal in Mandarin. . | 2007 Georgetown University Round Table. Washington D.C. Mar. 8-11. |