I am a formal linguist. I am interested in learning the internal rules that hold cross-linguistically. I received my Ph.D. in linguistics from Rutgers University. My research interests lie in semantics and syntax-semantics interface. Specifically, I have worked on the semantics of degree constructions in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Nuosu Yi. In addition, I am also interested in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
Chinese 101: Elementary Chinese I
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Chinese 112: Elementary Chinese--For Heritage Learners
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Chinese 318: Introduction to Applied Chinese Linguistics
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Under Review. (with Hongyong Liu). On the semantics of two types of adjectives in Nuosu Yi. [Manuscript]
2017. Subjectivity and Gradability: On the semantics of the possessive property concept construction in Mandarin Chinese. [CLS53 handout][Manuscript]
2016. (with Hongyong Liu). The evidenitality in Nuosu Yi. Language and Linguistics. [Link]
2015. The ingredients of comparison: the semantics of the excessive construction in Japanese. Semantics and Pragmatics Vol 8: 8. [Link]
2015. (with Carlos A. Fasola). The semantics of yue...yue in Mandarin Chinese: coerced gradability and the necessarily temporal reading. [CLS51 Proceeding Paper][Full Manuscript]
2014. (with Seunghun. J. Lee). The acquisition of comparative constructions by English learners of Chinese: An explorative study from a college Chinese language classroom. Chinese as a Second Language Research. Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 53-78. [Link]
2013. Degreeless comparatives: the semantics of Differential Verbal Comparatives in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Semantics. [Link]