Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

• [2023] Sentence-final particle de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer (with Sean Papay) European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) Student Session Best Papers Volume.
• [2022] Towards the copular status of clefts-- Evidence from diachrony (with Dawei Jin). Acta Linguistica Academica Vol. 69: Issue 3. 301-333. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
• [2019] Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions (with Dawei Jin). In collection of M. Cennamo and C. Fabrizio (Eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Vol. 348. 479--500. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• [2019] Scalarity, degree reading, and maximality in a Mandarin numeral construction (with Dawei Jin). Language and Linguistics Vol. 20: Issue 2. 148-179. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• [2018] Meaning Change in Mandarin Chinese: A Numeral Phrase Construction from Adjectives to Superlatives to Definite Descriptions (with Dawei Jin). Linguistics, Vol. 56: Issue 3, 599-651. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Book

• [2022] Copula in focus constructions - A case study of syntactic change in historical Chinese. (With Dawei Jin) Shanghai: Zhongxi Shuju.

Proceedings

• [2021] Sentence-final particle de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer. In D. Gutzmann and S. Repp (Eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Vol. 26. Cologne.
• [2021] Towards the biclausal status of Chinese clefts: Evidence from diachrony. In J. Benz and Y. Chen (Eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) Vol. 28: Issue 1.
• [2021] Sentence-final de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer. In M. Y. Pedersen and A. Pavlova (Eds.) Proceedings of 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 2021 Student Session. 75-83.
• [2017] Towards a copular approach to Chinese clefts---Evidence from diachronic syntax. Proceedings of 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 2017 Student Session.
• [2017] Meaning Change from Superlatives to Definite Descriptions: A Semantic Perspective. In J. Kantarovich, T. Truong, and O. Xherija (Eds.) Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 52. 117-131.
• [2016] Discourse Prominence Induces Semantic Change: Evidence from Chinese, In S. Cho (Eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 22: Issue 1, Article 9.