2026. The DP structure of nDrapa: when a classifier and a definite marker co-occur, GLOW in Asia 2026 The 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars (GLOW-in-Asia-WYS), Nanzan University, Nagoya, March 13-15.
2025. (with Roberta D’Alessandro & Victor Junnan Pan) Number agreement in heritage Chinese in Europe, Heritage Language Syntax 6, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye, November 6-7.
2025. Hànyǔ jìchéngyǔ de shùliàng yízhìxìng [Number agreement in heritage Chinese], dì sān jiè jīnghùgǎngào gāoxiào zhōngwén xuékē yánjiūshēng lùntán [the 3rd Jinghugangao university postgraduate Chinese forum], Fudan University, Shanghai, September 20-21.
2025. (with Victor Junnan Pan) Grammaticalization of demonstratives and the nominal structure in nDrapa, the 58th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-58), University of Bern, Switzerland, September 3-5.
2025. (with Roberta D’Alessandro & Victor Junnan Pan) Are there Third Factor effects in language contact? Evidence from Heritage Chinese, International Conference on Syntax and Semantics (ICSS), annual conference of The Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), Gyeongkuk National University, Andong city, South Korea, August 11-13.
2025. (with Victor Junnan Pan) Interaction of UG and the 3rd principles in resumptive pronouns: evidence from heritage Chinese in the Netherlands and France, The workshop on Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages, INALCO, Paris, France, June 6.
2025. (with Victor Junnan Pan) The dynamics of resumptive pronouns: Change and stability in Heritage Chinese in the Netherlands, Pacific Second Language Research Forum in conjunction with Conference on Innovation in L2 Chinese Acquisition Research, Shanghai Jiaotong University, May 30-June 1.
2025. Change and Stability of Resumptive Pronouns: From Heritage Chinese in Europe, Uiltjesdagen, Utrecht University, April 2-3.
2024. (with Victor Junnan Pan) On poly-definiteness and the structure of DP in nDrapa. Workshop of the 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest: Special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns. University of Bucharest, 15-16 November.
2024. On reduced structures in Chinese: A labeling approach. Extra SIL talk at Utrecht University, 9 October. (Invited)
2024. (with Victor Junnan Pan) Revisit the clausal approach to comparative deletion in Mandarin Chinese. The 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Roma Tre University, 19-20 September.
2024. (with Victor Junnan Pan) A Case of Pseudo-Optionality as a Consequence of Language Contact. CUHK-EHESS Symposium on Language and Cultural Contact Along the Frontiers of China, Ancient and Modern, 28 March. (Invited)
2024. A Comparative Investigation on the Micro and Macro-Contact of Wu Dialects in China and Europe. CUHK-EHESS Postgraduate Workshop on Language and Cultural Contact Along the Frontiers of China, Ancient and Modern, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 27 March. (Invited)
2024. (with Victor Junnan Pan) Labeling reduced structures in Chinese. The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to be held from 6-8 March.
2023. Overproduction of demonstratives in Chinese bilingual children: a degree in cross-linguistic influence. The 4th International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Dongguk University, Seoul, August 17-19.
2023. Labeling Mandarin ditransitives. The 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Dongguk University, Seoul, August 14-16.
2023. Contact targets the featural level: A gradience in morphological borrowing. Formal Approaches to Language Contact (Workshop of the 24th Diachronic Generative Syntax), Université Paris Cité, Paris, July 4-7.
2023. Overproduction of demonstratives in Mandarin-English bilingual children. The 1st Sun Yat-sen University Conference on Bilingualism, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, June 9 to 11.
2023. (with Victor Junnan Pan) Re-examine the Syntax and Semantics of the wh-adjunct zěnme ‘How’ in Chinese. The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL‐29), Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, May 27-29.
2022. On the syntactic hierarchy of Mandarin wh-words. The 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Sept 23-25.
2022. A case of pseudo-optionality from language contact. The 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Feb 23-25.
2022. Optionality: an output of language contact. 47th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università di Catania, Catania, Feb 24-26.
2021. Optionality as the consequence of language contact. The 6th Asian Junior Linguistics Conference, Sogang University, Seoul, Dec 10-12.
2021. A unified account to the quantifier induced intervention effects. The 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai, Nov 5-7.
2021. A cartographic approach to quantifier induced intervention effects in Chinese. The Fourth International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography & The First International Forum on Language and Brain, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, Oct 29 - Nov 1.
2021. (with Victor Junnan Pan) “Zěnme”yǔ jùmò zhùcí gòngxiàn cén jí de jù fǎ tuīdǎo [The cooccurrence of zenme ‘how’ and sentence-final particles in Chinese: the minimalist derivation], The 11th International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar – (ICCCG – 11), Heilongjiang University, Ha’erbin, July 23-26.