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Areas: Semantics, Pragmatics, Rhetoric.
Interested themes: Montague semantics and its later developments, Inferential pragmatics[esp. relevance theory] and its formal developments, formal semantic and pragmatic analysis of Chinese, rhetoric studies as extensions of semantics and pragmatics
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I have been working on a corpus of Chinese rhetoric, together with hundreds of MA students taking my subject on modern rhetoric, who contribute data in the form of analyzed new examples in their assignments. The corpus will be made accessible to registered users in a few months' time. Please write to me if you are interested.
Research topics:
Current: conditionals, deixis, presupposition, contextualism vs minimalism, the semantics of dou-quantification; anaphora; tropes; scalar implicature, direct reference, comparatives, donkey sentence
Theoretical concerns: formal semantics and pragmatics, cross-dialectal semantics for Chinese
Languages: mother tongue: Shanghainese; fluent: Mandarin Chinese, English; can read with a dictionary: French; can understand some and speak some: Cantonese; have some knowledge of: Latin, German