I have worked with several students to investigate various constructions in Mandarin. Below is work with Lydia Ding and Yining Rebecca Liu on infinitival clauses in Mandarin. I also worked with Yitong Chen and Nathaniel Chew on aspect markers.
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The Typology of Mandarin Infinitives (2016) (415.3KB PDF Document)12 September 2016Coauthored with my students, Lydia Ding and Yining Rebecca Liu, this paper argues for the existence of subject control clauses in Mandarin. We examine and a variety of diagnostics and present new evidence based on the interpretation of “forget.” This paper appears in: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 1, 28:1-15. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3727
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Mandarin Infinitives – LSA 2016 Poster (290.1KB PDF Document)10 May 2016This is a poster from the January 2016 LSA Meeting. This work is a collaboration with my students, Lydia Ding and Rebecca Liu.
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Processing Plural DPs_ Collective Cumulative and Distributive I (377.5KB PDF Document)This paper examines semantic theories of plurality in the context of processing. It was written while I was a graduate student at U-Mass and published many years later.