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[recent manuscripts]​​

On mixed alignment in Hokkaido Ainu and its variations​ [draft]​​

Submitted to CLS 61 proceedings one month after the deadline​

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Discontinuous DPs, wh-in-situ, and lower copy pronunciation in Chichewa [preprint]

Linguistic Inquiry

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On the dual status of the e-ending in Old Japanese verbal morphology [draft]
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 32

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Deep and surface zeros in Japhug person agreement [draft]

Proceedings of GLOW 47

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A scattered deletion account of Chichewa partial dislocation

Selected papers from the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

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[2026]

Scrambling in the nominal domain: Evidence from the Chichewa DP [preprint]

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 44:13​​​​​

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-026-09697-5​​

[2025]

The art of losing specifiers: On the synchrony and diachrony of N(P)-fronting in Shizhu and Zunyi [draft]

Proceedings of the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 60), 113–126​​​​​
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The hidden conjoint/disjoint alternation in Chichewa [web]

Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 84–93​​​

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N-to-D movement, scrambling, and DP-internal constituent order in Chichewa [draft]

NELS 55: Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 129–138

On the secondary nature of morphosyntactic change: An argument from Southwestern Mandarin [web]

Penn Working Papers in Linguistics volume 31.1: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference, 19–28

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[2024]​

论汉语数词的句法位置:来自吴语和西南官话的证据 [draft]

[On the positions of Chinese numerals: Evidence from Wu and Southwestern Mandarin]

汉语语言学 [Chinese Linguistics] 4:304–330

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[2023]

Deriving Mizenkei in Old Japanese verbal morphology [web]
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 30:289–303

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重庆石柱方言表定指「名数量」结构 [with Shèng Yìmín (盛益民)][preprint]

[The Noun-Num-Cl phrase as a definite construction: A case study of Shizhu Mandarin]

方言 [Dialects] 4:416–425

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[2022]​

言者意外与听者意外:从四川资阳方言看意外范畴的两个参项 [preprint]

[Now I am surprised, now you are surprised: On Mirativity in Ziyang and the sub-types of Mirativity]

语言学论丛 [Essays on Linguistics] 2:62–78

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语法化与重新加标:以资阳方言的「样」为例 [preprint]

[Grammaticalization and relabeling: A case study of the final particle yang in Ziyang]
语言研究集刊 [Bulletin of Linguistic Studies] 29:206–226

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[2021]

重庆石柱方言的定指表达手段 [preprint]

[Definite expressions in Chongqing Shizhu]

汉语方言定指范畴研究 [Studies on Definiteness across Chinese Dialects], 44–55

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[2020]

「数量名」语言中的定指「名(数)量」短语: 石柱方言名词性结构研究 [pdf]

[The definite ‘NP-(Num)-Cl’ phrase in a ‘Num-Cl-NP’ language: A study on the nominal structure in Shizhu]

MA thesis, Fudan University

 

 

 

 

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