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Work

 

Publications

To Appear. Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement . In  Proceedings of the 20th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20)

2008. Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement: evidence from Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-11)

To Appear . English Existential Construction as Locative Inversion: Evidence from Acquisitional Data. In Proceedings of the 2007 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007)

To Appear . The Preposed Object in Mandarin Chinese and Southern Min. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (ALPA31)

2007. (with Jen Ting) Light Verb, Heavy Verb, and Verbal Noun in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 9), 349-357.

2007. (with Duk-Ho An) On the Nature of suo in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-18), 11-23.

2002. The Discussion of Pedagogical Grammar of Wei (‘for’) and Ti (‘for’) in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the workshop of Mandarin Chinese Teacher Training and Grammar Teaching, 41 – 62.

 

Refereed Conference Presentations

2008. An Acquisitional Perspective on English Expletive Construction. Poster to be presented at the XI International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Edinburgh, July 31, 2008

2008. Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement: evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Paper to be presented at the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-11), Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 25, 2008.

2008. Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement . Paper to be presented in the 20th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Columbus, April 27, 2008.

2007. English Existential Construction as Locative Inversion: Evidence from Acquisitional Data. Poster presented at the 2007 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007), San Diego, December 1, 2007.

2007. The Preposed Object in Mandarin Chinese and Southern Min. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (ALPA31), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, November 3, 2007.

2007. Children’s Acquisition of English Expletive Constructions. Poster presented at the 81th Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, January 5, 2007.

2006. (with Duk-Ho An) On the Nature of suo in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented in the 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-18), Bellingham, June 24, 2006.

2006. (with Jen Ting) The Diversity and Unity of light Verbs in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented in the 14th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-14) and the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-10) Joint Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 28, 2006.

2006. (with Jen Ting) Feature Lowering & Theta-role Checking in Light Verb Constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 80th Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 7, 2006.

 

Other Presentations

2006. An Acquisitional Perspective on English Expletive Construction. Paper presented at UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW), University of Masseuses, Amherst, December 9th, 2006.

2006. (with Duk-Ho An) Revisiting suo in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the ECO5 Student Workshop in Syntax, MIT, March 4, 2006.

2005. (with Jen Ting) Theta-roles, Move F, and Light Verb Constructions. Ling Lunch presentation at the Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, December 6, 2005.

2003. (with Jen Ting) On the Light Verb Constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 2th workshop of formal syntax and semantics (FOSS-2), Academia Sinica,  Taipei, Taiwan, September 27, 2003.

2002. The Discussion of Pedagogical Grammar of Wei (‘for’) and Ti (‘for’) in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the workshop of Mandarin Chinese Teacher Training and Grammar Teaching, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 8, 2002.