Research

Publications

Under Revision

On the Role of Iconicity in Encoding Manner and Result Entailments.
(with Liangliang Li, Jialei Zhu, Jianrong Yu, and Huan Sheng)

2026

Projecting Telicity in Event Structure of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Production and Eye-tracking Experiments. Lingua 330: 104084.
(with Qiaoyun Liao, Xin Weng, and Mengting Gao)

2025

跨语言视角下汉语自发运动事件的路径语义分析[Path Semantics of Spontaneous Motion Events in Chinese: A Crosslinguistic Perspective]. 《语料库研究前沿》第三辑,第 64–80 页[Frontiers in Corpus Studies 3: 64–80].
(with Ying Chen, and Hui Chen)

Presentations

Submitted

Why Can Catalan Say ‘Pour Coffee in the Cup’? Canonical Scales as World Knowledge in Root.

A Unified Account of Nominal Localizers in Catalan and Mandarin Chinese.
(with Jeroni Mas-Fiol)

2026

Two Types of ResultP in Locative Alternation: Mandarin Chinese vs. English and Catalan. III Workshop on Linguistic Variation at Interfaces. VARINT 2026. Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain, March 19.

西班牙语SE和汉语动前“给”的比较:附缀同类性与差异分析[On SE in Spanish and Preverbal GEI in Mandarin Chinese: Similarities and Differences in Their Clitic Behavior]. The Second Forum on Social and Cultural Studies in Spanish-Speaking Countries. Jilin International Studies University, Changchun, China, May 23.
(with Yihang Liu)

2024

Iconically and Simultaneously Encoding Manner and Result: Insights from Shanghai Sign Language. The Sixth International Conference on Neo-descriptivism. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, October 26.
(with Liangliang Li, Jialei Zhu, Jianrong Yu, and Huan Sheng)

Manuscripts

In Preparation

Scales, Event Structure, and Iconicity in Shanghai Sign Language.
(with Liangliang Li, Jialei Zhu, Jianrong Yu, and Huan Sheng)

On SE in Spanish and Preverbal GEI in Mandarin Chinese: Similarities and Differences in Their Clitic Behavior.
(with Yihang Liu)