Current research projects

• Focus  and  phase  edges  in  Mandarin
• Structure of restrictive relative clauses in Nuosu Yi (with Suhua Hu)
• Split intransitivity in Mandarin (with Shin Fukuda, Yunchuan Chen, Yao Huang)

2021

• The puzzle of anaphoric bare nouns in Mandarin: A counterpoint to Index! (jointly with Veneeta Dayal), Linguistic Inquiry https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00433 (pdf)
• The Chinese classifier system as a syntactic system (with Peter Jenks and Jing Jin). In Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin and I-Hsuan Chen (eds), Cambridge Handbook on Chinese Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press （pdf)

2020

• Nominal Arguments and Language Variation. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, Oxford University Press

2018

• Definiteness in Nuosu Yi and the theory of argument formation. Linguistics and Philosophy 41:1, 1-39. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-017-9219-6    (pdf)

2017

• Mandarin associative plural -men and NPs with -men. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 4:2, 191-256. doi: 10.1075/ijchl.16015.jia  (pdf)
• Noun phrases in Lhasa Tibetan, (with Yunchuan Chen). Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics. (pdf)

2015

• Marking (in)definiteness in classifier languages. Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 8, 411-443. doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00802010   (pdf)

2014

• A parametric analysis of nominal arguments in classifier languages. In Y.-H. Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson and W.-T. Dylan Tsai (eds), Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, 51-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945658.001.0001

2012

• Nominal arguments and language variation. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. (pdf)

2011

• An overt determiner in a classifier language, (with Suhua Hu). In Ming-le Gao (eds).Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW-in-Asia VIII, 205-211. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press. (pdf)

2010

• On bare classifier phrases, (with Suhua Hu). Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics and the 18th International Association of Chinese Linguistics, 230-241. (pdf)

2009

• Monotonicity and measure phrases in Chinese. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society 45: 1, 303-317. (pdf)

2008

• SUO in Chinese and phase edges. Manuscript, Harvard University. (pdf)

2006

• fuza dongbushi de yuyi he yufa fenxi [On the semantic and syntactic analysis of complex resultative verb compounds]. Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition) 4: 66-70. (in Chinese)
• dongbu jiegou chongdongju yu dongbu jiegou huatiju de jufa gouzao he xianghu guanxi yanjiu [On the Syntactic Relation of Verb-copying Construction and Topic Structure in Mandarin].  M.A. thesis, Peking University. (in Chinese) (pdf)