Broad interests: Formal Semantics, Lexical Semantics, Syntax, Morphology
Specific topics: Lexical Decomposition, Event & Argument Structure, Verbal Semantics, Comparison Constructions
Journal Article: The Lexical Semantics of Motion Verbs 奔, 走, and 跑 in Shanghainese and Mandarin Chinese: Implications for Theories of Verbal Meaning (with Jialei Zhu). Journal of East Asian Linguistics 33, pp. 229-257. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-024-09277-x
Journal Article: On the Expression of Resultativity in English: The View from Multiple Resultatives (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 9(1), pp. 1-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11126
Journal Article: Introducing Agents by Binding Indices: Implications for Subjectless Presuppositions and Agent Entailments (with Ryan Walter Smith). Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 9(1), pp. 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10596
Invited Presentation: A Thematic Ambiguity Account of Non-culminating Construals of Mandarin Experiencer-object Psych Verbs (with Jialei Zhu). Presented at the Institute of Linguistics seminar series, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai China.
Paper Presentation: Iconically and Simultaneously Encoding Manner and Result: Insights from Shanghai Sign Language (with Mengzhe Geng, Jialei Zhu, Liangliang Li, and Huan Sheng). Paper presented at The 6th Conference on New Descriptivism, jointly organized by Shenzhen University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
Journal Article: States and Changes-of-state in the Semantics of Result Roots: Evidence from Resultative Constructions (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 41: pp. 1589-1628. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09570-9
Journal Article: Degrees and Manners as Kinds: Evidence from Dutch Equatives (with Lena Heynen). Linguistics in the Netherlands 40: pp. 263-284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00091.yu
Invited Presentation: 词汇库藏视角下词汇的语义蕴含和句法分布: 上海话与普通话的位移动词比较 (with Jialei Zhu). Presented at 3rd Workshop on Inventory Typology 第三届语言库藏类型学会, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Invited Presentation: The Lexical Semantics of Motion Verbs 奔, 走, and 跑 in Shanghainese: Implications for Theories of Verbal Meaning (with Jialei Zhu). Presented at Wu Colloquium 吴方言语法研讨会 2023, Zhejiang University, fully online.
Invited Presentation: On the State of Degree Achievement Verbs (with Ryan Walter Smith). Presented at Degrees: Generative Perspectives (DeGP) workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Invited Presentation: Equatives Across Categories in Germanic: Implications for the Ontology of Degrees and Manners. Presented to the Department of Linguistics and English Language SemLab, The University of Manchester, Manchester UK.
Invited Presentation: Comparisons of Equality Across Languages: Degrees, Manners, and Kinds as Grammatical Primitives. Presented at the Department of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Paper Presentation: A Process Semantics for Non-selected Subject Resultatives in English. (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at the 16th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 16), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Paper Presentation: A Process Semantics for Non-selected Subject Resultatives in English (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2023, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Paper Presentation: The Roots of Strong and Weak Resultatives in English and Spanish (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at the Colloquium on Generative Grammar 32, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Paper Presentation: On Multiple Resultatives: Implications for the Unique Path Constraint (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives workshop, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Paper Presentation: Resultatives and the Semantics of Verbal Roots (with Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives workshop, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Paper Presentation: Equating by Quantifying Over Kinds: Zo...als Equatives in Dutch (with Lena Heynen). Paper presented at Grote Taaldag 2023 (Dutch Annual Linguistics Day), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Paper Presentation: Equating by Quantifying Over Kinds: Zo...als Equatives in Dutch and Beyond (with Lena Heynen). Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
Poster Presentation: The Roots of Strong and Weak Resultatives (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
Poster Presentation: Equating by Quantifying over Kinds: Zo...als Equatives in Dutch (with Lena Heynen). Poster presented at Northeast Linguistics Society 53, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Proceedings Paper: Indexicals in the Semantics of Stative Verbs and Beyond (with Ryan Walter Smith). Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society 3, pp. 125-134.
Invited Presentation: Introducing Arguments Redux (with Ryan Walter Smith). Presented to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Department of Linguistics syntax workshop.
Paper Presentation: Resultatives and the Semantics of Verbal Roots (with Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2022, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Paper Presentation: Subjectless Presuppositions and Severing the External Argument (with Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2022 special workshop on Agents: Grammar or Roots?, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Poster Presentation: Equating by Quantifying over Kinds: Zo...als Equatives in Dutch (with Lena Heynen). Poster presented at Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 36, The University of Chicago.
Journal Article: Agentless Presuppositions and the Semantics of Verbal Roots (with Ryan Walter Smith). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40(3): pp. 875-909. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-021-09524-z
Journal Article: Agent Entailments and the Division of Labor between Functional Structure and Roots (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 6(1): 53, pp. 1-25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1207
Proceedings Paper: Subjectless Presuppositions and the Semantics of Verbal Roots. (with Ryan Walter Smith). Proceedings of 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 386-396. Paper available here.
Proceedings Paper: Directed Motion Entailments in the Semantics of Roots: A Root-sensitive Approach (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, pp. 112-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.927
Proceedings Paper: Indexicals in Stative Verbs and Beyond. (with Ryan Walter Smith). Proceedings of The 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 198-212.
Invited Presentation: States and Comparatives in the Semantics of Degree Achievement Verbs. Presented at the Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology, KU Leuven, Belgium, fully online.
Invited Presentation: Decomposing Degree Achievement Verbs (with Ryan Walter Smith). Department of Linguistics and English Language SemLab, The University of Manchester, fully online.
Paper Presentation: A Root-sensitive Approach to Event Structure (with Josep Ausensi Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2021, fully online due to COVID-19.
Paper Presentation: Indexicals in Stative Verbs and Beyond (with Ryan Walter Smith). Paper presented at The 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Sogang University, Seoul South Korea, fully online due to COVID-19.
Poster Presentation: Indexicals in the Semantics of Stative Verbs and Beyond (with Ryan Walter Smith). North East Linguistics Society 52, Rutgers University, fully online due to COVID-19.
Poster Presentation: Decomposing Degree Achievements: Evidence from Measure Phrases and Sub-lexical Modification (with Ryan Walter Smith). West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 39, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, fully online due to COVID-19.
Poster Presentation: Directed Motion Entailments in the Semantics of Roots: A Root-sensitive Approach (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, fully online due to COVID-19.
Dissertation: Repetitive and Restitutive Presuppositions and the Semantics of English Verbal Roots. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ. Dissertation available here.
Proceedings Paper: Repetitive Presuppositions with Again: Un-severing the External Argument (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Proceedings of The Linguistic Society of America 5(1), pp. 83-93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4666
Proceedings Paper: Restitutive Readings, Quantificational Objects, and the Structure of VPs (with Ryan Walter Smith). Proceedings of the 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia & The 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 293-303. Paper available here.
Proceedings Paper: Lexical Decomposition in Syntax: New Evidence from VP-ellipsis (with Yosuke Sato). Proceedings of the 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia & The 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 210-222. Paper available here.
Proceedings Paper: Resolving a Syntax-Semantics Mismatch: Introducing Additional Arguments in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 55(1), pp. 451-463. Paper available here.
Proceedings Paper: Giving Verbs More Arguments in Mandarin Chinese. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 26(1), 26. Paper available here .
Paper Presentation: Directed Motion Entailments in the Semantics of Roots: A Root-sensitive Approach (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). Sinn und Bedeutung 25, University College London & Queen Mary University of London, fully online due to COVID-19.
Paper Presentation: Subjectless Presuppositions and the Semantics of Roots (with Ryan Walter Smith). West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 38, University of British Columbia.
Paper Presentation: Repetitive Presuppositions with Again: Un-severing the External Argument (with Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith). 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Poster Presentation: Restitutive Readings, Quantificational Objects, and the Structure of VPs (with Ryan Walter Smith). 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Poster Presentation: Lexical Decomposition in Syntax: New Evidence from VP-ellipsis (with Yosuke Sato). 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Paper Presentation: Restitutive Readings, Quantificational Objects, and the Structure of VPs (with Ryan Walter Smith). Arizona Linguistics Circle 13, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.
Paper Presentation: Restitutive Readings, Quantificational Objects, and the Structure of VPs (with Ryan Walter Smith). Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XII & The 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Dongguk University, Seoul South Korea.
Paper Presentation: Lexical Decomposition in Syntax: New Evidence from VP-ellipsis (with Yosuke Sato). Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XII & The 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Dongguk University, Seoul South Korea.
Paper Presentation: The Syntax and Semantics of the Mandarin Give-marked Double-Object and Prepositional-Dative Constructions. Penn Linguistics Conference 43, University of Pennsylvania.
Poster Presentation: How to Give More Arguments: Mandarin Double-object and Dative Constructions with Give. Chicago Linguistic Society 55, The University of Chicago.
Proceedings Paper: Verb Doubling at the Syntax-Morphology Interface: Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds, Manner Incorporation and M-merger. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 53(1), pp. 413-425. Paper available here.
Proceedings Paper: Lexical Category and the Distribution of Word-final Vowels in Hiaki (with Heidi Harley, Adam King, Maria Florez Leyva, Santos Leyva). University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 46, pp. 311-327. Paper available here.
Paper Presentation: On Relative Clauses in Colloquial Singapore English: One-marked Clauses as Appositive Free Relatives. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2018 Winter Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Paper Presentation: Verb Doubling at the Syntax-Morphology Interface: Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds, Manner Incorporation and M-merger. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, The University of Chicago.
Paper Presentation: Lexical Category and the Distribution of Word-final Vowels in Hiaki. 21st Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), Université du Québec à Montréal.
Paper Presentation: Copula-less Non-verbal Predication in Colloquial Singapore English and the General Anchoring Condition. 16th Texas Linguistics Society Conference, University of Texas at Austin.