Other Activities

September 2011

Invited Seminars
2008 Are in-situ wh-phases in-situ or not?  From the 80’s till present. Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series in Linguistics 2008, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages.  April 7-18, 2008
2006 Modern syntax. One week lecture series at Spring School in Chinese Linguistics (organized by the European Association of Chinese Linguistics), held in Leiden University, 27-31 March 2006 (with Rint Sybesma).
2005 Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese, 2 week lectures at the Linguistic Society of America summer school, MIT. June-July.
2004 The syntax of VP in Chinese, 6 lectures Beijing University, China, May-June.
2003 Wh-in-situ, 3 lectures in Universität Frankfurt, March.
2000 The Syntax and Semantics of noun phrase, 5 lectures in the LOT summer school, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, June.
1999 The Syntax of Wh-in-situ, 8 lectures in the Holland Institute of Linguistics, Leiden University, January-March.
1997 Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Noun Phrases, 4 lectures in the Linguistic Institute (Linguistic Society of America), Cornell University, June-July.

General Lectures
2004 Portuguese vs. Chinese, a case of comparative syntax, Mozaiëk, NWO, April.
2003 “Dislocatie in taal,” Leiden Cognition Day, Leiden University, June.

Keynotes

2011 “Spell-out domains don’t define prosodic domains,” Swiss Workshop in Generative Grammar, University of Geneva, April.
2009 “Counting and classifiers,” The Mass/Count Workshop, University of Toronto, February.
2006 “On all the every’s in Chinese,” The Fourth Europeal Association of Chinese Linguistics Meeting, Budapest, January.
2006 “Dou, scope isomorphism and syntactic analyticity,” The 11th Symposium on Contemporary Linguistics, Tianjin, China, October.

Invited Talks (Conferences)

2010 “Spell-out domains don’t define prosodic domains,” Workshop on Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories, Leiden University, December.
2009 “Bare nouns in Chinese and Zulu,” Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Nominal systems across Languages, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 14-16 September.
2009 “Verb fronting in Mandarin Chinese,” IACL 17, 2-4 July Paris.
2009 “Clefts in Durban Zulu,” the 19th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, University of the Basque Country, 1-3 April.
2009 “On weak dummy objects,” Weak Referentiality Kick-off Workshop, Utrecht University, 27 March (with Rint Sybesma).
2008 “A different look at dou,” Sino-Kwo kick-off workshop, Leiden University, October 31-November 1st.
2008 “How universal is the Universal Grinder,” Bare N workshop, Leiden University, June.
2008 “Mapping in the syntax-phonology interface,” International Network in Biolinguistics, University of Arizona, February 23-24.
2007 “Verb fronting and verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese,” Symposium on Chinese syntax and semantics, City University of Hong Kong, August 18-20.
2007 “The morpho-syntax of dou,” Mini-workshop on Compounding theory and Chinese morpho-syntax, University of Verona, June.
2006 “Deconstructing the shi…de construction,” Chicago Workshop on Chinese Linguistics, University of Chicago, December 1-2.
2006 “Phonology and syntax at the right edge in Zulu,” Prosody-Syntax Interface Workshop, University College London, October. (with Laura Downing)
2006 “Trapped at the edge: on long distance pair-list readings,” Workshop on Universalist perspectives on relative properties: Features vs. constructions of the clausal left periphery, SLE 39, Bremem, September. (with Hamida Demirdache)
2005 “On every type of quantificational expression in Chinese,” Workshop on QP structure, nominalization and the role of DP, Center for Language Research and Technology, Universität des Saarlandes, December.
2005 “Decomposing Bantu relatives,” NELS 36. UMass Amherst, October.
2004 “Clefts and Inversed Clefts in Chinese,” Workshop on Syntactic Categories and their Interpretation in Chinese, Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Science.
2003 “Wh-NPs vs. Wh-pronominals in Free Choice,” Panel speaker in the Symposium on The Indeterminate: Wh and indefinite Noun Phrases, English Linguistics Society of Japan Annual Meeting, Japan, November.
2002 “Wh-NPs vs. Wh-pronominals,” Workshop on Polarity, Quantification, Free-Choice and Wh, University of York, November.
1999 “Bare nouns and [Classifier-N] phrases in Cantonese and Mandarin,” at the Miniworkshop on “Weird Quantification, Utrecht University, June.
1997 “You in Mandarin Chinese and (Locative) Existentials,” at On the Formal Way to Chinese Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, December.
1997 “On Possession in Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese,” at the International Conference on Chinese Linguistics 6, Leiden University, The Netherlands, June.
1994 “Questions about Dou: A Commentary,” invited commentary presented at the Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Southern California, May.
1994 “Linguistic Competence and Universal Grammar,” invited presentation at Workshop on Statistical Physics and Mathematical Simulations, Academia Sinica (with Jane Tang), August.

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Invited Talks (Colloquia)

2009 “Verb doubling,” Summer school in Linguistics, Beijing University, July.
2009 “On cleft sentences,” Center for Linguistics Theory, Beijing language and culture University, July.
2008 “Against FocusP: evidence from Zulu,” Must, Utrecht University, September.
2008 “Syntactic and Phonological Phrasing in Zulu,” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages.  April.
2007 “Classifiers: Canatonese vs. Mandarin,” University of Venice, July.
2006 “Dou as an external definite determiner,” The 14th SoY Linguistic Colloquium, Leiden University, June.
2006 “Dou as an external contextual domain restrictor,” Semantics colloquium, Radboud University Nijmegen, May.
2005 “Antilocality and Bantu relatives,” Wednesday Syntax Meeting, Leiden Univeristy, November.
2005 “On each and every type of quantificational structure in Chinese,” Syntaxsemantics colloquium, Utrecht University, April.
2004 “Wh-semantics and the morphological make-up of free choice,” LUSH, Leiden, February.
2003 “Some notes on Chinese clefts,” Hiroshima University, Japan, November.
2003 “In-situ or not?” ZAS, Berlin, April.
2003 “Free Choice: universals vs. indefinites, evidence from Cantonese,” SOY seminar, Leiden University, March.
2002 “Types of Wh-in-situ,” Syntax-semantics colloquium, Utrecht University, May.
2002 “Types of wh-in-situ,” Workshop on the Syntax-Semantics Interface in the CP-Domain, ZAS, Berlin, March.
2001 “Wh-in-situ revisited: the Portuguese puzzle,” University of Amsterdam, February.
2001 “Wh-in-situ revisited: the Portuguese puzzle,” University of Groningen, February.
2000 “Bare nouns and classifiers in four varieties of Chinese,” Seminar on Chinese Language, Literature and Culture, Sinologisch Institute, Leiden University, November.
2000 “Wh-in-situ revisited: the Portuguese puzzle,” Tilburg University, April.
2000 “How do native Chinese/Japanese speakers treat count-mass in English,” at the Langauge, Culture and Cognition workshop, Leiden University, March.
1998 “Partial wh-movement,” Utrecht University, April.
1998 “Marking modification in Cantonese and Mandarin,” SOAS, London, March.
1997 “Bare and not-so-bare Nouns and the Structure of NP,” at Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, April.
1997 “Possessive NPs,” at Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, April.
1996 “Core Issues in the Minimalist Program,” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, June.
1996 “Classifiers and Massifiers,” at the City University of Hong Kong, June
1996 “More on Donkey Sentences,” Mayfest at the University of Maryland, May.
1995 “Partial and Optional Wh-movement,” at the University of Washington, May.
1995 “Negative Particle Questions: The Connection between Negation and Yes-no Questions,” at the University of Toronto, March.
1995 “Negative Particle Questions: The Connection between Negation and Yes-no Questions,” at the University of Connecticut, March.
1994 “Partial and Optional Wh-movement,” at National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, August.
1993 “Wh-scope Markers and Partial Wh-movement,” at University of California at Los Angeles, February.
1992 “Wh-movement and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis,” at University of Southern California, March.
1991 “Wh-words as Polarity Items,” at University of Pennsylvania, February.
1991 “Wh-words as Polarity Items,” at Northwestern University, February.
1991 “Wh-words as Polarity Items,” at University of Victoria, February.

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Conference/Workshop Presentations

2011 “Mapping phonology to syntax: evidence from two wh-in-situ languages,” GLOW 34, University of Vienna, April 28-30.
2008 “Clefts in Durban Zulu,” Cleft Workshop, ZAS, November 28-29.
2008 “Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu,” Workshop on Interface-based Approaches to Information Structure, University College London, September 13-15.
2008 “The in-situness of wh-phrases in Bantu languages,” Workshop on Movement and Word Order in Bantu.  Leiden University, March 7-8.
2008 “How universal is the Universal Grinder,” paper presented in Tin-Dag, February, 2008.
2007 “On count and mass in Bantu,” paper presented in the first network meeting on Bantu, Chinese and Romance noun and noun phrases. SOAS, London, November 30-1 December (with Thilo Schadeberg).
2007 “How universal is the grinder,” paper presented in the first network meeting on Bantu, Chinese and Romance noun and noun phrases. SOAS, London, November 30-1 December (with Rint Sybesma).
2007 “Phonology and syntax at the left edge in Zulu,” paper presented in the Workshop “What’s the topic?” Center for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, January (with Laura Downing).
2006 “The prosody and syntax of Zulu relative clauses,” paper presented in the Conference on Bantu Grammar: description and theory, SOAS, April (with Laura Downing).
2005 “Locality paradoxes”, paper presented in The Leiden workshop on issues at the Interfaces, Leiden University, December (with Hamida Demirdache).
2004 “Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented in Workshop on The Copy Theory of Movement On the PF Side, Utrecht University, December.
2005 “Syntactic and phonological phrasing of Bemba Relatives,” paper presented in the 5th Bantu Grammar: Theory & Description Meeting, SOAS, London, May (with Nancy Kula).
2004 “(In)definiteness, polarity, and the role of wh-morphology in Free Choice,” paper presented at the Workshop on Strategies of Quantification, Unversity of York, July (with Anastasia Giannakidou).
2003 “Modality within the VP or not,” paper presented at the Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (with Rint Sybesma).
2003 “Wh-arguments vs. wh-adverbials,” the 1st Bantu Grammar: Theory & Description Meeting, SOAS, London, April.
2002 “On Cantonese dak.” paper presented at the Seizièmes Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, CRLAO, Paris (with Rint Sybesma).
2001 “A permissive/potential modal in atypical postverbal position. On Cantonese dak and Mandarin de.” paper presented at the Societas Linguistica Europaea 34-Workshop on microvariation in the syntax of auxiliaries, Leuven (with Rint Sybesma).
2000 “Bare possessors in Cantonese and Mandarin noun phrases,” paper presented in the From NP to DP conference, Antwerpen.
1998 “On the transitivity of run and dummy objects in general,” paper presented in the Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (with Rint Sybesma).
1996 “A Theoretical Perspective on Classifiers and DP in Chinese Languages,” paper presented in the XXIX International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands (with Rint Sybesma).
1996 “Bare Nouns and the Functional Structure of NP,” paper presented at the Symposium on the Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases, City University of Hong Kong (with Rint Sybesma).
1996 “Classifiers and the functional structure of NP in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the Onzièmes Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, Paris, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO) (with Rint Sybesma).
1996 “On the Syntactic Projection of Tense in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the Eighth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (with Jane Tang).
1995 “Negative Particle Questions: Synchronic and Diachronic perspectives,” paper presented in the Workshop on East Asian Linguistics, University of California at Irvine (with James Huang and Jane Tang).
1995 “Negative Particle Questions: A Dialectal Comparison,” paper presented at the Workshop on Historical Syntax in Chinese, Stanford University (with James Huang and Jane Tang).
1995 “Ho Ho Ho in Taiwanese,” paper presented at the Workshop on the Min Dialects, University of California at Berkeley (with James Huang, Audrey Li and Jane Tang).
1994 “Negative Particle Questions: A Dialectal Comparison,” Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (with James Huang and Jane Tang).
1994 “Causative Compounds across Chinese Dialects: A Study of Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese,” paper presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Academia Sinica (with James Huang, Audrey Li and Jane Tang).
1993 “Morphological and Syntactic Negation in Cantonese and Mandarin,” paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, December (with Jane Tang).

1993 “Two Types of Donkey Sentences,” paper presented at the North Eastern Linguistic Society 24, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (with James Huang).
1993 “Argument Structure and Resultative Compounds,” paper presented at the Second International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Université de Paris VII, (with James Huang).
1993 “Wh-scope Markers and Partial Wh-movement,” paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Canada.
1993 “Two Types of Donkey Sentences,” paper presented at the Fifth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Delaware (with James Huang).
1992 “Deriving the Locality Restrictions on Dou in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
1992 “Deriving the Locality Restrictions on Dou in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the First International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
1992 Resultative Compounds and Lexical Relational Structures,” paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
1991 “Wh-words as Polarity Items,” paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
1991 “Multiple projections and double negation in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the North America Chinese Conference on Linguistics, Cornell University (with Yafei Li).
1990 “Feature Geometry of Vowels and Co-occurrence Restrictions in Cantonese,” paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 9, Stanford University.
1990 “External Arguments in Basque,” paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 9, Stanford University (with Hamida Demirdash).
1990 “Superiority Violations,” paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, University of Victoria, British Columbia (with Hamida Demirdash).
1989 “Aspectual Licensing of pro in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association, Université de Laval, Quebec.
1989 Aspectual Licensing and pro in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the East Coast Conference on Chinese Linguistics 1, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
1988 “Transitivity Alternations in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the Chinese Linguistics Conference 3, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
1987 “On a Small Clause Analysis of Mandarin and French Inalienable Possession,” paper presented at the North Eastern Linguistic Society 18, University of Toronto, Ontario (with Elizabeth Ritter).
1987 “Derived Domains and Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi,” paper presented at the Chicago Linguistic Society 23, Parasession on Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, Chicago.
1987 “Passive in Mandarin,” paper presented at the Workshop on Chinese and Japanese Linguistics, Connecticut College, Connecticut.
1987 “Ba-construction in Mandarin Chinese and Affected Theme,” paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association, McMaster University, Ontario.
1986 “De in Mandarin Chinese,” paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic
Association, University of Manitoba, Manitoba.

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