Colloquia/workshops

(09/2022) Three types of nominal tautologies. 玉山語言學沙龍. National Taiwan Normal University. [online]

(05/2021) (with Xinjunrong Huang) 唯一的報告. 第二届现代汉语副词句法语义研讨会.  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. 

(11/2020) Toward a unified account of the scalar particle hai. 广东外语外贸大学形式语言学论坛.  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. 

(12/2019) Exhaustivity and bare numeral phrases. Colloquium talk, Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University.

(11/2019) Modality, exhaustivity, and scalar focus particles. 现代汉语副词句法语义研讨会.  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

(06/2019) (with Tian Gan) Quantifier scope in Mandarin: Some recent issues. International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese ("漢語形式語義研究"國際研討會). Beijing Language and Culture University.

(01/2019) Quantifier scope ambiguity: Theoretical and methodological issues. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jan 8.

(07/2018) Epistemic wh-indefinites. Invited colloquium talk, Center for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

(02/2017) 普通話疑問詞非疑問用法的幾個疑問. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Chinese Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong.

(11/2016) On "quantity" number phrases in Mandarin. Invited colloquium talk, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Refereed conferences

(05/2023) Scalar particles that regulate partial and complete answers: The case of Mandarin jiu. The 29th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 29), Macau University of Science and Technology.

(05/2023) Free choice, discourse structure, and Mandarin dou. Poster presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 13 (TEAL 13), National Taiwan Normal University.

(05/2023) Free choice, discourse structure, and Mandarin dou. Virtual poster presented at the 41th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), University of California, Santa Cruz.

(05/2022) Counterfactual presupposition, exhaustivity, and the semantics of Mandarin hai. The 28th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 28), The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

(05/2022) (with Tian Gan) Independent scope and the structure of locative ba-constructions in Mandarin. The 28th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 28), The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

(11/2021) (with Tian Gan) The syntax of locative ba-constructions: Evidence from independent scope.  The 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL 9), Fudan University.

(08/2019) (with Tian Gan, poster) Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin dative constructions. The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia 12) and the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 21), Dongguk University. 

(08/2019) (poster) Mandarin verb doubling clefts as contrastive topic constructions. The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia 12) and the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 21), Dongguk University. 

(07/2019) (with Tian Gan) Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin dative constructions. The 12th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL 12), University of Macau.

(07/2019) Mandarin verb doubling clefts as contrastive topic constructions. The 12th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL 12), University of Macau.

(06/2019) (with Tian Gan) The semantics-pragmatics interface of quantifier scope in Mandarin. The 6th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 2019), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

(05/2019) Topicality, conditionality and sentence-final particles. 漢語句末助詞小型研討會. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

(05/2019) (with Tian Gan) Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin: Experimental investigations. The 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 27), Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.

(05/2019) Contrastive topics, anti-exhaustivity, and the semantics of Mandarin dou.  The 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 27), Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.

(12/2018) (with Tian Gan) Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin revisited. The Annual Research Forum (ARF) of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong. 

(11/2018) Scalar implicatures and the meaning of quantity wh-phrases under negation.  The 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL 8), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.

(05/2018) The uncertainty condition of existential polarity wh-phrases. The 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 26) & 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(04/2016) Preverbal number phrases in Mandarin and the scalar reasoning of jiu. Poster presented at the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 34), University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

(10/2014) Unifying Mandarin dou-constructions. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 45), MIT.

(09/2014) Decomposing Mandarin dou-quantification. The 9th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL 9), University of Nantes.

(09/2013) Prohibiting inverse scope: An experimental study of Chinese vs. English (joint work with Greg Scontras, Ken Mai & Maria Polinsky). Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2013), Université Paris Diderot.

(04/2013) On a proper treatment of interrogative scope in Chinese. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 49).

(01/2013) Generic dou in Chinese: A cleft analysis. The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 87), Boston, MA.

(04/2011) Descriptive complement constructions as concealed pseudoclefts in Chinese. The 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29), University of Arizona, Tucson.

(05/2010) (with Juiyi Chung) The syntax of modal tet in Hakka and some dialectal correlates. Joint meeting of the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 18) and the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 22), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 

(07/2009) Lower light verbs as subevent predicates. The 17th Annual Meeting of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 17), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. 

(07/2008) Wh-constructions in Saisiyat. Workshop on Language Diversity: From the Perspective of Descriptive Linguistics (satellite workshop of the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18)), Korea University, Seoul. 

(07/2008) Before the operator met the variable: Zi and ji in Archaic Chinese. The Past Meets the Present: A Dialogue Between Historical Linguistics and Theoretical Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 

(05/2008) Lexical Merger Parameter and Saisiyat wh-constructions. Poster presented at the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL 11), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.