2025. Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal and informational interpretations. (With Yoshihisa Kitagawa.) Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43:1665–1729. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09647-z]
2025. Variable force modality in English infinitival relatives: A matter of degree. Linguistic Inquiry. [https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00542]
2024. Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice. Linguistics and Philosophy 47:265–315. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09397-y] [View-only version]
2024. Irrealis expressions and modality: A response to von Prince, Krajinović, and Krifka. (With Grayson Ziegler, Amanda Bohnert, Emily Hanink, Kelly H. Berkson, Shobhana Chelliah, and Sui Hnem Par.) Language 100(2):e84–e93. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a929755]
2022. (Counter)factual want ascriptions and conditional belief. (With Milo Phillips-Brown.) The Journal of Philosophy 119(12):641–672. [https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil20221191241]
2022. Enough clauses, (non)finiteness, and modality. Natural Language Semantics. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-022-09190-w] [View-only version]
2018. How to neutralize a finite clause boundary: Phase theory and the grammar of bound pronouns. (With Howard Lasnik.) Linguistic Inquiry 49(3):465–499. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00279
2018. Universal markedness in gradable adjectives revisited: The morpho-semantics of the positive form in Arabic. (With Stuart Davis.) Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36(1):131–147. doi: 10.1007/s11049-017-9365-0 [Free access link (read only)] [Prepublication version]
2017. Control, temporal orientation, and the cross-linguistic grammar of trying. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1):94.1-21, doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.335
2017. What partial control might not tell us about agreement: A reply to Landau. Syntax 20:400-413. doi: 10.1111/synt.12144. [August 2016 draft]
2017. Finiteness contrasts without Tense? A view from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 26:259-299. [Free access link (read only)] [Prepublication version] [Handout for a related talk]
2017. The logic of intention reports. Journal of Semantics 34:587-632. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffx010 [Free access link] [Prepublication version] [Handout for a related talk]
2012. Mandarin Transitive Comparatives and the Grammar of Measurement. (With Chris Kennedy.) Journal of East Asian Linguistics 21:219-266. [Springer link] [Prepublication version]
2011. Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in Gradable Adjectives. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 30:513-565. [Springer link] [Prepublication version]
2011. Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese. (With Osamu Sawada.) Natural Language Semantics 19:191-226. [Springer link] [Prepublication version]
A unified analysis of rational clauses. Paper presented at NELS 53, University of Göttingen, January 2022. [Handout] [Proceedings submission]
2022. To the best of our knowledge: Factivity alternation in Korean. (With Jisu Park.) In Bakay, Ö., B. Pratley, E. Neu, and P. Deal (eds.) NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1, 307–316. [Proceedings submission]
2019. Getting aspectual -guo under control in Mandarin Chinese: An experimental investigation. (With Yiwen Zhang.) Paper presented at North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 30, Columbus, OH, March 2018. [Handout] [Proceedings submission]
2019. Getting the progressive under control: Mandarin vs. English. Paper presented at North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 30, Columbus, OH, March 2018. [Handout] [Proceedings submission]
2019. Belief, intention, and the grammar of persuasion. Paper presented at Chicago Linguistic Society 54, April 2018. [Handout] [Proceedings submission]
2019. Choice functions in intensional contexts: Rehabilitating Bäuerle's challenge to the scope theory of intensionality. Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36, UCLA, April 2018. [Poster] [Proceedings link]
2018. Control, logophoricity, and harmonic modality in Gengbe desire reports. (With Samson Lotven.) Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 21 in Edinburgh, September 2016. [Handout] [Proceedings link]
2015. Semantic consequences of syntactic subject licensing: Aspectual predicates and concealed modality. Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 20 in Tübingen, September 2015. [Handout] [Proceedings submission]
2015. A coercion-free semantics for intention reports. Paper presented at 51st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. [Handout] [Proceedings submission]
2015. Getting your to-do list under control: Imperative semantics and the grammar of intending. In Bui, T. and D. Özyildiz (eds.) Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society vol. 1, 241–252. [Proceedings submission]
2014. An experimental investigation of partial control. (With Aaron Steven White.) In Etxeberria, U., A. Falaus and B. Leferman (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18:469-486. [Semantics Archives pdf link] [Link for accessing materials, raw data and analysis files]
2011. Mental action and event structure in the semantics of try. In Ashton, N., A. Chereches and D. Lutz (eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21:426-443. [eLanguage link]
2021. With Chan Lu. Mandarin xiang and the architecture of attitude reports. Virtual poster presented at LSA 2021. [Slides]
2020. With Yiwen Zhang. Morphosyntax-semantics mapping in the grammar of property concepts: The view from English, Mandarin, and beyond. [Ms.]
2016. Two sources of grammatical deviance in non-controlled nonfinite subjects. Paper presented at NonFinite Subjects Conference in Nantes, France, April 2016. [Handout]
2016. Severing the external argument from the aspectual verb. (With Brandon Rhodes.) Poster presented at LSA Annual Meeting, January 2016. [Poster]
2015. Control without finiteness contrasts: Aspect and complement size in Mandarin Chinese. ms., Indiana University. [pdf] [Handout for a related talk]
2012. Wanting (to have) null verbs: A view from Mandarin and beyond. Paper presented at LSA Annual Meeting, January 2012. [Abstract] [Handout]
2011. Exhaustive control is not control: Cinque's IP and the raising/control divide. Paper presented at Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, September 2011. [Abstract]
2011. Aspect under (and out of) control in Mandarin Chinese. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstract. [eLanguage link]