Journal publications

• Nianpo Su. (2025). Classifiers and DP structure in Nuosu Yi: Evidence from tone. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 10(1). PDF

Conference proceedings

• Nianpo Su. (2025). A head movement analysis of Nuosu Yi CLF-D order. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference. PDF

• Nianpo Su & Helena Aparicio. (2023). NPI licensing and intrusion effects in Japanese. Proceedings of the 58th Chicago Linguistics Society Annual Meeting. PDF

• Nianpo Su & Yunchuan Chen. (2022). Can the head quantifier phrase reconstruct in doubly embedded Chinese relative clauses? Proceedings of the 45th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference. PDF

Conference presentations

• Nianpo Su & Helena Aparicio. (2026). When demonstratives act like definites: Evidence from focus in Mandarin. Poster at the 4th Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference (ELM4). Pennsylvania, PA, Jun 10-12, 2026.

• Nianpo Su. (2025). An optional classifier language with D: Seram Timur. Talk at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA-32). Jakarta, Indonesia, Jun 2-4, 2025. [slides]

• Nianpo Su. (2025). Revisiting DP structure in Nuosu Yi: The role of tone. Talk at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 14 (TEAL-14). Los Angeles, CA, Mar 18-20, 2025. [slides]

• Nianpo Su, Miloje Despić, & Helena Aparicio. (2024). Marking definiteness in Nuosu Yi: A counterexample to the Blocking Principle?. Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2024). Ann Arbor, MI, May 15-18, 2024. [poster]

• Nianpo Su. (2024). A head movement analysis of Nuosu Yi CLF-D order. Talk at the 48th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC48). Philadelphia, PA, Mar 16-17, 2024. [handout]

• Nianpo Su & Helena Aparicio. (2022). NPI licensing and intrusion effects in Japanese. Poster at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS58). Chicago, IL, Apr 22-23, 2022. [poster]

• Nianpo Su & Yunchuan Chen. (2021). Scope assignment in doubly embedded relative clauses in L2 Japanese. Poster at the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3). Hsinchu, Taiwan. Nov 20-21, 2021. (Virtual)

• Nianpo Su & Yunchuan Chen. (2021). Can the head quantifier phrase reconstruct in doubly embedded Chinese relative clauses?. Talk at the 45th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC45). Mar 19-21, 2021. (Virtual)

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