Publication
2024
"A Construction-based Approach to Cantonese Classifiers". Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 60–75. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2024.4) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/946) (with Francis Bond).
"Humor as a mind-engineering tool in the digital age: the case of stand-up comedy". In Chris Shei and James Schnell (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering. (with Luis Morgado da Costa).
"Classifiers and definiteness in Longdu (Min Chinese)". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 17(1).
2023
"The Open Cantonese Sense-Tagged Corpus". In Proceedings of the 12th International Global Wordnet Conference, 23-27 Jan, 2023, San Sebastian, Spain. (with Luis Morgado da Costa).
2022
"Enriching Linguistic Representation in the Cantonese Wordnet and Building the New Cantonese Wordnet Corpus", In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022, Marseille, France, 20-25 June 2022, European Language Resources Association, pp. 70-78. (with Luis Morgado da Costa).
"Multilingual Reference Annotation: A Case between English and Mandarin Chinese". In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Marseille (France), 20 June 2022. (With Luis Morgado da Costa).
2020
"The dual identity of the post-verbal can1 in Cantonese: a non-specific resultative particle and a free choice item". Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 41(2): 139-160.
"Two types of aa3-nominals in Cantonese". Language and Linguistics 20(1): 80-103. (With Sze-Wing Tang)
"CALLIG: Computer Assisted Language Learning using Improvisation Games". In Proceedings of Workshop on Games and NLP, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2020, Marseille (France), pp. 49-58 (with Luis Morgado da Costa). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/workshops/Games-NLP/index.html
2019
"Building the Cantonese Wordnet". In Proceedings of the Tenth Global Wordnet Conference, Wroclaw (Poland), 23-27 July 2019, Global Wordnet Association (ELRA), pp. 206-215. (with Luis Morgado da Costa)
2018
Film review: Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Asian Ethnicity, https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2018.1559035
Film review: Good luck soup (2016), Asian Ethnicity, https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2018.1454825
"VOT Contrasts in Zhongshan Min". Current Research in Chinese Linguistics 97(1):199-214. (With František Kratochvíl)
2017
"Personal Pronouns". In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, and J. Myers (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3, pp. 353-360. Leiden: Brill.
"Demonstratives". In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, and J. Myers (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, pp. 7-12. Leiden: Brill.
2015
"Scalarity and the Cantonese post-verbal particle can1". In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, NTU Singapore, ed. Stefan Müller, pp. 235- 242. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
"Divergence in Expressing Definiteness between Mandarin and Cantonese". In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, NTU Singapore, ed. Stefan Müller, pp. 178-195. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. (with Sanghoun Song).
2014
"Teaching Linguistic Skills through Comedy: An Interdisciplinary Approach". In Sivan, Atara, Dennis Chan and Mark Wallbanks (eds.), Studies on Teaching and Learning, vol. 3, pp. 107-118. Pearson. (With Lian-Hee Wee)
2012
"Teaching linguistics using improvised comedy". In C.A. Decoursey (ed.) Language Arts in Asia: Literature and Drama in English, Putonghua and Cantonese, pp. 281-300. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (with Lian-Hee Wee)
2011
"The Cantonese ge3". In F. H. Yap, K. Grunow-Ha ̊rsta & J. Wrona, (eds.), Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives, Volume 1: Sino-Tibetan and Iranian Languages, pp. 125-146. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2010
"The syntax of [+human] terms in Cantonese". In C. Wilder and T. A. Afarli (ed.) Chinese Matters: From Grammar to First and Second Language Acquisition, pp. 15-27. Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press.
2008
"The encoding of referential properties in the Chinese nominal". Language and Linguistics 9(1):101-126.
"D is for Demonstrative: Investigating the position of the demonstrative in Chinese and Zhuang". The Linguistic Review 25(3):453-478. (with Rint Sybesma)
"The nominal phrase in Northern Zhuang: A descriptive study". Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 3(1):175-225. (with Rint Sybesma).
2007
"The indexical expressions gam2 and gam3 in Cantonese". In J. U.-S. Sio & S.-W. Tang (eds.) Studies in Cantonese linguistics 2, pp. 55-73. Hong Kong: Linguistics Society of Hong Kong Publications. (with Sze-Wing Tang)
2006
"Modification and reference in the Chinese nominal". Leiden University, LOT Publications.
2004
"The two types of possessive construction in Cantonese". In Proceedings of the 15th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, pp. 313-330. GSIL Publications, Univ. of Southern California, CA.
