Journal Articles

2023 Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
With Jackie Yan-Ki Lai, first author
paper
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Talks

2025 Modal presupposition and probability-sensitivity of negated indefinites
Sinn und Bedeutung 30
With Yizhen Jiang
paper
2025 Passamaquoddy quantifiers: Outlier of distributivity-number generalization?
Sinn und Bedeutung 30
With James Cooper Roberts, firth author, and Yizhen Jiang
paper
2025 How to talk about groups in a language without group nouns: The case of Passamaquoddy
TripleA 12
With James Cooper Roberts and Yizhen Jiang
handout
2025 Modal presupposition and probability-sensitivity of negated indefinites
Chicago Linguistic Society 61
With Yizhen Jiang
slides
2025 Passamaquoddy quantifiers: outlier of distributivity-number generalization?
Chicago Linguistic Society 61
With James Cooper Roberts and Yizhen Jiang
poster
2025 Diagnosing modal clause structure with focus-sensitive operators in Mandarin Chinese
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43
poster
2024 The case for the strong and conditional analysis of permission
Sinn und Bedeutung 29
paper
poster
2024 Dou as even and plural universal quantification in Mandarin Chinese
North East Linguistics Society 54
paper
poster
2023 Mandarin clausal comparatives involve standard embedding
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41
With Zhouyi Sun
paper
handout
2023 The syntax and semantics of Chinese asymmetric Across-the-Board construction
North East Linguistics Society 53
poster
2021 A head-to-specifier movement account of multiple pre-subject modals in Mandarin Chinese
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, University of California, Berkeley
slides
2020 New cartographic evidence for clause-medial position of low sentence-final aspect particles in Mandarin Chinese
Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium
slides

BA Thesis

2022 The Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Across-the-Board Constructions
University of Chicago
Supervisor: Karlos Arregi
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