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 Diagnosing modal clause structure with focus-sensitive operators in Mandarin Chinese.
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43.
2024 The case for the strong and conditional analysis of permission.
Sinn und Bedeutung 29.
2024 Dou as even and plural universal quantification in Mandarin Chinese.
North East Linguistics Society 54.
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.
paper