2026
Shifting at-issueness without shifting commitment
Poster presented at At-Issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Sep. 21–22.
On the semantic input and output of the question particle ma. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at The 5th International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese (ICFAMC–5), Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Aug. 29–30.
Are A-not-A questions really restricted in neutral contexts?
Talk given at The Inaugural Conference for Young Scholars in Chinese Linguistics [首届中国语言学青年学术大会], Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, Jun. 13–14.
Haishi as an adverb: Towards a syntactic–semantic reanalysis of Mandarin alternative questions.
Talk given at The 32nd Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL–32), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, Jun. 12–14.
[🥳 Young Scholar Award (YSA) Finalist for Best Paper in Chinese Linguistics.]
From negated epistemic necessity to question bias: Evidence from Southwestern Mandarin weibi. (with Mingming Liu)
Poster presented at The 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL–15), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Jun. 5–6.
Rethinking the felicity conditions of A-not-A questions. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at The 2nd Workshop on the Frontier Research of Formal Linguistics & The 7th Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Adverbs in Modern Chinese, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, May 29–31.
Bridging negated epistemic necessity modal and question bias.
Poster presented at The 5th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning (TLLM 2026), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Apr. 3–5.
2025
Fragment questions in Mandarin Chinese. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at The 4th International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese (ICFAMC–4), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Dec. 18–19.
Coordinating questions with haishi and huozhe. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at The 6th Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Adverbs in Modern Chinese, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Nov. 29–30.
Insubordinated if-clauses as QUD subordination.
Talk given at The 11th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL–11), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, Nov. 8–9.
On the polarity asymmetry of the discourse adverb you.
Talk given at The 12th Young Scholars Forum of "Chinese Teaching in the World" [第12届《世界汉语教学》青年学者论坛], Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, Sep. 20.
Mandarin he: Conjunction as scalar implicature.
Talk given at TripleA 12, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 10–12.
Fragment questions as contrastive topics over QUD. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at TripleA 12, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 10–12.
Poster presented at The 27th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 27), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 14-16.
Pseudo-unconditionals in Mandarin Chinese.
Poster presented at The 27th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 27), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 14–16.
Haishi and alternative questions in Mandarin. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at Kick-off workshop Scalarity at the Syntax-Semantics Interface, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Mar. 3–4. [visual]
2024
The syntax and semantics of Mandarin alternative questions. (with Mingming Liu)
Talk given at The 3rd Workshop on Formal Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity, Peking University, Beijing, China, Nov. 30–Dec. 1.
Scalar or additive: A unified semantics for Mandarin hai.
Talk given at The 30th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL–30), Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, May 25–27.
From exclusivity to adversativity: On the syntax and semantics of Mandarin zhishi.
Talk given at The 3rd International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese (ICFAMC–3), Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China, Apr. 19–21.
Decomposing Mandarin disjunctor haishi.
Talk given at The 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning (TLLM 2024), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Mar. 29–31.
2023
On the formal semantics of Mandarin unconditionals.
Talk given at The 10th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL–10), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Oct. 28–29.