Publications

Journal articles

Under review. Standard negation and aspectual definiteness in Chinese varieties. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

Under review. Standard negation in Gaozhou Yue. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. (first review completed)

2023. Rethinking postverbal 'acquire' and related constructions in Cantonese: Polyfunctionality and parameters. Language and Linguistics 24(4). 674-732.

2018. On the interaction between negation and aspects in grammaticalization: a cross- linguistic study of three Chinese varieties. Current Research in Chinese Linguistics 97(1). 215-232.

Book chapters

Submitted. Negation in Cantonese. In Andy Chin, Shin Kataoka & Bit-chee Kwok (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics. Routledge.

2022. Croft’s Cycle in Mandarin and Cantonese through history and across varieties. In Ljuba Veselinova & Arja Hamari (eds.), The Negative Existential Cycle from a historical-comparative perspective (Studies in Diversity Linguistics Series), 357-401. Berlin: Language Science Press. [PDF]

2020. Beyond one, two, three: number matters in classifier languages. In András Bárány, Theresa

Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (eds.), Syntactic architecture and its consequences I: Syntax inside the grammar, 511–525. Berlin: Language Science Press. [PDF]

Conference proceedings

2022. Standard negation and aspectual definiteness: new evidence from Cantonese. Proceedings of the 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 24), 59-81. Seoul: Hankook Munhwasa.

Invited talks

2022. Cohesion analysis of texts: A study on reading comprehension and teaching effect of Chinese pre-service teachers. The Hong Kong Metropolitan University RIBiLT seminar series. 26 January 2022. (with Edith Cheung)

2020. Rethinking polysemy: An all-in-one framework of dak1 in Cantonese. The Hong Kong Metropolitan University RIBiLT seminar series. 23 September 2020. [Video]

2016. Cantonese: the biggest endangered language. Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures. University of Cambridge. 2 March 2016. (with Ricky Chan) [PDF]

Presentations

Peer-reviewed conference presentations

2022. Standard negation and aspectual definiteness: new evidence from Cantonese. 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 24). Korean Generative Grammar Circle. 12–14 August 2022 [online due to pandemic].

2022. Revisiting postverbal 'acquire' in Cantonese. 28th Annual meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28). The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 20–22 May 2022 [moved online due to pandemic].

2021. Postverbal acquisitive modal and related constructions. a parametric approach. 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 23). Korean Generative Grammar Circle. 11–13 August 2021 [moved online due to pandemic].

2021. Postverbal “acquire” in Cantonese: a unified analysis. 33rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 33). University of Chicago. 24–25 June 2021 [moved online due to pandemic].

2020. Number matters in Mandarin and Cantonese. 24th International Conference on Yue Dialects. University of Macau. 13–14 November 2020 [moved online due to pandemic].

2020. Verbal definiteness and presupposition effects in Gaozhou Cantonese standard negation. 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32). The University of Connecticut. 18-20 September 2020.

2020. The Chinese negation puzzle revisited: a study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties. 5th Workshop on Innovations In Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-5). The Ohio State University. 18-19 April 2020.

2019. A DP account for variation in classifier dependency in Cantonese and Mandarin. LSHK Annual Research Forum. Hong Kong. 7 December 2019.

2018. Presupposition effects and standard negation in Gaozhou Cantonese. LSHK Annual Research Forum. Hong Kong. 1 December 2018.

2017. Polyfunctional GET marker in Chinese varieties: a unified account of postverbal DAK. 22nd International Conference on Yue Dialects. Hong Kong. 8-9 December 2017.

2017. The shaping of Mandarin negation - a new perspective from grammaticalisation. 25th Annual meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25). Budapest, Hungary. 24-28 June 2017.

2017. Croft's negative existential cycle and the shaping of the negation system in varieties of Chinese. Negative existential cycle workshop. University of Stockholm. 4-5 May 2017.

2015. On the interaction between negation and aspects in grammaticalisation: a cross-linguistic study of three Chinese varieties. 20th International Conference on Yue Dialects. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 11-12 December 2015.

2015. On the shaping of Chinese negation systems – interaction between Croft’s negative-existential cycle and BE/HAVE evolution. 9th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9). Stuttgart, Germany. 24-26 September 2015. [PDF]

2014. Explaining variation in classifier dependency in Mandarin and Cantonese nouns. 2nd Asian and European Linguistic Conference (AE-Link 2). Newcastle, United Kingdom. 5-6 December 2014. [PDF]