Work in progress

In preparation. Non-canonical subjects in generic sentences: a causal approach. (with Taijing Xiao)
In preparation. Processing focus intervention effects in Mandarin. (with Yaqing Cao and Haoze Li)

Manuscript(s)

2024. Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters each. Natural Language Semantics (With Diti Bhadra, Haoze Li) journal | preprint
2023. A New Corpus of Lexical Substitution and Word Blend Errors: Prob- ing the Semantic Structure of Lemma Access Failures each. Journal of Cognition. (With John Alderete, Melissa Baese-Berk and Adrian Brasoveanu) journal
2022. The mereological structure of distributivity: a case study of binominal each. Journal of Semantics. journal | preprint
2019. Constraint on distributivity. PhD dissertation. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
2018 Questioning speech acts. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (SuB 22) (with Haoze Li and Diti Bhadra)
2016. Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns in Mandarin. (With Kristen Syrett) Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47)
2016. The number sensitivity of modal indefinites. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (SuB 21)
At least some distributive items aren’t distributive items. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 46) (with Haoze Li)
Alternatives in different dimensions: A case study of focus intervention. Linguistics and Philosophy (with Haoze Li)

2023. Affectedness in passives (with Colin Hirschberg). Poster presented at Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 13, National Taiwan Normal University, May 12-14. poster
2022. Processing focus intervention structures in Mandarin Chinese (with Yaqing Cao). Poster presented at the 35th Annual Meeting on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 35), UC Santa Cruz, March 24-26. poster
2022. To perform or not to perform? Talk presented as the Edinburgh Meaning Sciences Group (EMSG), April 14. slides
2022. Force shift as speech act anchoring. Talk presented at the UCSC S-Circle, April 8. slides
2021. Building complex speech acts UCLA Colloquium, November 12. slides
2019. Independence in distributivity. Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory, UCLA, May.
2019. Experimental support for discourse translucency of bare noun phrases inMandarin (with Kristen Syrett)
2019. Paper presented at the 92nd AnnualMeeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 92), New York, January.
2018. Monotonicity in distributivity with binominal each Poster presented at the 49th AnnualMeeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49), Cornell, October. poster
2017. Questioning Speech Acts (with Diti Bhadra and Haoze Li) Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (SuB 22), ZAS/University of Potsdam, September.
2016. Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns. (with Kristen Syrett)

An illustration of the Chinese expression mangren moxiang (盲人摸象) `a group of blind people making sense of an elephant'.