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As a native speaker of Chinese dialects (Mandarin and Cantonese), I have investigated certain important topics in Chinese syntax, namely copula shi, adnominaliser de, the (in)famous shi-de cleft construction, and co-verbs like ba. Below is a list of all my work in this field in reverse chronological order:
As a native speaker of Chinese dialects (Mandarin and Cantonese), I have investigated certain important topics in Chinese syntax, namely copula shi, adnominaliser de, the (in)famous shi-de cleft construction, and co-verbs like ba. Below is a list of all my work in this field in reverse chronological order:
Chinese shi, de and shi-de constructions:
Chinese shi, de and shi-de constructions:
'Chinese (ad)nominalisation: sublexical featural microvariation'. Oral (virtual) presentation at the 2021 KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 22nd-24th April 2021.
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Microvariation in Sinitic nominalisation (uzh).pdf'Microvariation in the Chinese nominal domain: mapping formal and dialectal cartography from historical corpora and social media (WeChat)'. Oral (virtual) presentation at Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in the 21st century (MVC21), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 17th-18th March 2021.
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Microvariation in Chinese nominal domain mapping cartography (revised).pdf'Sinitic nominalisation: microvariation and dialect levelling'. Oral (virtual) presentation at the 24th International Conference on Yue Dialects (第二十四届國際粵方言研討會), University of Macau, Macau, China, 13th November 2020.
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Sinitic nominalisation microvariation and dialect levelling.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
Sinitic nominalization (漢語名物化).pptxVideo recording:
'Sinitic adnominalisers de vs ge: nominal microvariation in event structure'. Oral presentation at the Third International Symposium of Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-3), University College of Cork, Ireland, 14th December 2019.
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Sinitic nominalisers DE vs GE microvariations in event structure.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
Chinese adnominalisers and event structure.pptx'Cantonese ge'. Oral presentation at the Second Forum in Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-2), in conjunction with the School of Cantonese Studies, Education University of Hong Kong, 1st June 2019.
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Cantonese GE(1).pdfPowerpoint presentation:
FoCaL-2 presentation Cantonese GE.pptx'Chinese cleft constructions: microparametric "lateral" grammaticalization'. Buckeye East Asian Linguistics, Ohio State University, volume 4, pp. 69-78. (2018)
BEAL4Tse+HDD preprint.pdf'Formation of Chinese clefts: microparametric 'lateral' grammaticalization'. Poster presentation at the Third Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum (BEAL-3), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 22nd October 2018.
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Formation of Chinese clefts microparametric lateral grammaticalization.pdfPoster presentation:
Formation of Chinese clefts (BEAL-3).pptx'Formation of Cantonese clefts', Oral presentation at the First Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-1), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 31st May 2018.
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Formation of Cantonese clefts.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
FoCaL-1 2018.pptx'Formation of Chinese shi-de constructions (Mandarin and dialects)', Oral presentation at the Second International Symposium of Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-2), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 16th December 2017.
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Isoctal-2 abstract (new).pdf‘Chinese shi-de constructions’, Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute, University of Kentucky, United States, 9th July 2017.
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LSA poster abstract.pdf‘Formation of Chinese shi-de constructions’, Oral presentation at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the International Assocation of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungarian, 25th June 2017.
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Abstract for IACL 2017 (downloadable).pdfPowerpoint presentation:
Diachronic formation of Chinese shi-de constructions.pptx‘Chinese copula shi’, Oral presentation at the inaugural International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-1), The Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS), Newcastle University, 10th December 2015.
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Lateral grammaticalization Chinese copula NAMED Newcastle 2015.pdf‘What is ‘lateral’ grammaticalization? Chinese de and shi’, Oral presentation at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-20), Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Thursday 30th August 2012.
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IACL 2012.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
What-is-‘lateral-grammaticalization’-_IACL_-_2_.pptxChinese co-verbs, light verbs and serial verbs
Chinese co-verbs, light verbs and serial verbs
'Chinese Voice: Applicatives and Argument Alternations'. Oral presentation at the Third International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC2019), Beijing Language and Culture University, 25th-27th October 2019.
Philological Society Martin Burr Funding summary report.
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IWSC2019.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
Chinese Voice (IWSC).pptx'Chinese ba and bei: Co-Verbs, Light Verbs, Voice and Argument Alternations'. Paper presentation at the 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-8), School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 24th November 2018.
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把字句和被字句：形式句法分析.pdf'Chinese Voice: ba and bei'. Poster presentation at the International Forum on Frontiers in Linguistics (IFFL), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, 30th October 2018.
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Forum in Linguistics 2018.pdfPoster presentation:
Chinese Voice (BLCU).pptx'Chinese ba: new Voice head and Voice alternations', Oral presentation at the 31st Paris Meeting in East Asian Linguistics (JLAO), Institute des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 28th June 2018.
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31st Paris Meeting abstract (named).pdfPowerpoint presentation:
Chinese ba 把 JLAO.pptx'Diachrony of Differential Object Marking: creative parametric microvariation of semantic features’, Oral presentation at the International Workshop: Diachrony of Differential Object Marking, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 17th November 2017.
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DOM diachrony abstract.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
DOM diachrony presentation.pptxHandout:
Differential Object Marking handout (2017).docx‘Chinese ba: grammaticalization, ‘lateral’ grammaticalization and Case theory’. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25). (2014)
NACCL proceedings (latest).pdf‘Chinese ba: grammaticalization, ‘lateral’ grammaticalization, and Case Theory’, Poster presentation at the Twenty-Fifth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Saturday 22nd June 2013.
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NACCL abstract 2013.pdfPowerpoint presentation:
The grammaticalization of Chinese ba grammaticalization, 'lateral' grammaticalization and case theory.pptxReport abuse