Research
Publications
(under review) Perspective Blend and Indexical Shift in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL)
Gan (2023). Question Answer Pairs in Hong Kong Sign Language. CLS 58 Proceeding. 103-118.
Gan (2022). Scope relation and structure hierarchy in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL): Exploring ditransitives. In A. Holtz, I. Kovač, & R. Puggaard-Rode (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (pp. 201–219). Published by Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/sole (pdf)
Gan (2021). Shifted indexicals in Hong Kong Sign Language with(-out) role shift. The FEAST Journal, 4, 74–86. https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i4.06 (pdf)
Gan & Gobbo (2019). Attitudes towards the official recognition of Hong Kong Sign Language by Hong Kong Citizens. Journal of Linguistics and Education Research, 2(1), 19-34 (pdf)
Unpublished Manuscripts
2023 Indexical Shift and Perspective Blend in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). (UConn Linguistics, 2nd General Exam Paper, please email for a copy)
2022 Syntactic structure of argument wh-questions in Hong Kong Sign Language (UConn Linguistics, 1st General Exam Paper, please email for a copy)
2019 WH-questions in Hong Kong Sign Language (UvA rMA thesis, Supervisor: Roland Pfau) (pdf)
Conferences presentations
upcoming Correlation between word order and information structure in Hong Kong Sign Language (poster). TISLR 2025. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
upcoming (With Diane Lillo-Martin, Julie Hochgesang, and Deborah Pichler). Assessing the Development of ASL by Deaf Children: Longitudinal Spontaneous Production Data (presentation). FEAST 2024. Ann Arbor, USA
01/2023 Perspective Blend and Indexical Shift in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). The 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53). Göttingen, Germany.
05/2022 Syntactic structure of argument wh-questions in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) (presentation). The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28). Hong Kong SAR, China (virtual) (slides).
04/2022 Question Answer Pairs in Hong Kong Sign Language (presentation). Chicago linguistics Society 58 (CLS 58). Chicago, USA.
01/2022 Scope and structural hierarchy in Hong Kong Sign Language: Exploring ditransitives (presentation). ConSOLE 2022. Nantes, France (virtual)
06/2021 Indexical Shift with(-out) Role Shift: Evidence from Hong Kong Sign Language, poster presented at the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST)2021, Hong Kong SAR, China (virtual) (abstract; 3-minutes video summary; poster)
06/2021 (With Gobbo, F. & X. Zheng). Contested linguistic heritages: CODAs and denaskuloj in comparison. MINLANGCONF 2021 (virtual)
07/2019 Attitudes towards the official recognition of HKSL by Hong Kong citizens, presented at the Symposium on Sociolinguistic Variation in Signed and Spoken Languages of the Asia-Pacific Region, Lancashire, UK.
12/2016 A focus marker? WH-phrases in QAPs, presented at The 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Tianjin, China
10/2016 Acquisition of WH-question in Hong Kong Sign Language by deaf bilingual children, presented at the Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Symposium 2016, Hong Kong SAR, China.
10/2016 Wh-cleft in Hong Kong Sign Language, presented at The 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Shanghai, China