Syntax

'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 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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'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 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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'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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'Chinese cleft constructions: microparametric "lateral" grammaticalization'. Buckeye East Asian Linguistics, Ohio State University, volume 4, pp. 69-78. (2018)

'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 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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‘Chinese shi-de constructions’, Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute, University of Kentucky, United States, 9^th July 2017.

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‘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, 25^th June 2017.

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‘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, 10^th December 2015.

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‘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 30^th August 2012.

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'Region Prepositions: The View From French' (co-authored with Francesco Ursini (Central China Normal University)). Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique 66(1):31-59. (2021)

'Event Structure and Differential Object Marking: Perspectives from Romance and Chinese'. Oral (virtual) presentation at the Workshop on Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar (EESLiG), University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 16th September 2020.

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'What is D in DOM (Differential Object Marking)?' Oral (virtual) presentation at the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Virtual Colloquium, 11th September 2020.

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'Nominal and Verbal Parameters in Differential Object Marking: Romance ad and Chinese ba'. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5(1):670-684. (2020)

'Nominal and Verbal Parameters in Differential Object Marking: Romance ad and Chinese ba'. Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, 2nd January 2020.

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'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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'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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'Microvariation in Western Romance Differential Object Marking (ad): synchrony and diachrony'. Oral presentation at Differential Object Marking in Romance- Towards Microvariation, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 9th November 2018.

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'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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'Chinese ba: new Voice head and Voice alternations', Oral presentation at the 31st Paris Meeting in East Asian Linguistics (JLAO), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 28th June 2018.

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'Western Romance Differential Object Marking (ad): analogical generalization and feature 'simplification'. Oral Presentation at the 21st Annual Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 30th March 2018.

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'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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‘Chinese ba: grammaticalization, ‘lateral’ grammaticalization and Case theory’. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25). (2014)

'Formation of Romance Differential Object Marking (ad)'. (2013)

‘Latin ad as a Romance Case-marker: differential object marking, Minimalism, formalism/functionalism’, Oral presentation at Going Romance 2013, University of Amsterdam, Friday 29^th November 2013.

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‘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 22^nd June 2013.

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‘The formation of Spanish prepositional objects’. Oral presentation at the Association of Hispanists in Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, Monday 25^th March 2013.

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‘(Ibero-)Romance Case-markers'. Oral presentation at the 2nd Cambridge Colloquium on the ‘Histories of the Ibero-Romance Languages', Norman MacColl Symposium 2012, Queen’s College, University of Cambridge, Thursday 29^th March. 2012.

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'Biolinguistics and Language Evolution: What is Linguistic Simplicity?' Oral (virtual) presentation at the Ronin Public Seminar, 6th November 2020.

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'Formalist and functionalist factors in parameter-resetting: a creative compromise', Oral presentation at the Workshop on 'Learnability in a Parametric World', Romance Turn IX, 1st September 2018.

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'Formal convergence and divergence: creative parametric (re)setting in Latin/Romance syntactic change', Oral presentation at the Workshop 'Romance Diachrony at the Interfaces', Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), University of York, Toronto, Canada, 25th April 2018.

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‘Standard’ grammaticalization and ‘lateral’ grammaticalization: weakening (or not) of functional elements- a revised view of co-evolution of meaning and form’. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions (VCC), University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, Wednesday 26^th October. 2016

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'Grammaticalization and "lateral" grammaticalization: new perspectives on linguistic interface and functional categories', supervised by Professor Giuseppe Longobardi and Dr George Tsoulas at University of York, examined by Professor Peter Sells (internal) and Professor Elly van Gelderen (external- Arizona State University), deposited in the White Rose online etheses depository. (2016)

‘Loss and gain of features in syntactic change’. Oral presentation at the PhD course: Loss and Gain in Language, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, Thursday 21^st May 2015.

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‘The grammaticalization of K(case)Ps within Minimalism: formalism vs functionalism, synchrony vs diachrony’, in Bednaříková, Božena and Pavla, Hernandezová (eds), Bohemica Olomucensia,Od slova k modelu jazyka: Sborník z 13. mezinárodního setkání mladých lingvistů. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci (ISBN: 978-80-244-3960-0), pp. 310-325. (2014)

‘What is ‘lateral’ grammaticalization?’. Languages at the University of Essex (LangUE), Proceedings for LangUE 2012, pp. 98-110. (2013)

‘KPs: ‘configurationality’ and ‘structural simplification’ ‘. Languages at the University of Essex (LangUE), Proceedings for LangUE 2012, pp. 85-97. (2013)

‘Grammaticalization and ‘lateral’ grammaticalization, formalism and functionalism’. Working papers of the University of Geneva, GG@G, SWIGG 12, pp. 95-115. (2012)

K(case): grammaticalization and "lateral" grammaticalization.' MS, University of Manchester. (2012)

'Grammaticalization and "lateral" grammaticalization, formalism and functionalism, in Minimalism.' MS, University of Manchester. (2011)