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. An affectedness approach to passives in Mandarin. Manuscript

Publications

• 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)

Presentations

• 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)