I'm now an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before joining in NTU, I worked at Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
I got my PhD from Department of Linguistics, New York University (NYU) and and Master's from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) .
My research interest lies primarily in semantics and pragmatics, as well as their interactions with syntax. More specifically, I have worked on Mandarin (and its dialects), Cantonese, English, and Japanese in the following areas:
Meaning of questions
Form--meaing mismatches
Focus--interrogative interaction
Quantification and measurement
Sentence-final particles and speech acts
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Although the majority of my work is done with tools in theoretical semantics and syntax, I have started recent collaborative projects incorporating other methods in contemporary linguistics, including experimental linguistics and corpus study.
Beyond linguistics, I have an interest in the history of Chinese immigration.