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Recent Talks
- 4/7 Harvard Yenching Institute workshop: On the positioning of Mandarin contrastive topic -ne (Slides)
- 3/20 MIT Colloquium: Deriving the Diversity of Contrastive Topic Realizations (Slides)
- 2/22 Stanford Colloquium: Deriving the Diversity of Contrastive Topic Realizations
- 11/13 Ling 730 Guest Lecture: The Prosody of English Contrastive Topic (Handout)
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About Me
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I’m currently in my final year of the linguistics PhD program at UMass Amherst. My research interests are in semantics, pragmatics, prosody, focus, and discourse particles. Recent topics I’ve worked on include contrastive topic semantics, focus movement, appositivity, and expressive meaning. Empirically, my research draws on large corpora, supplemented by context-rich elicitation. My dissertation looks at contrastive topic meanings and realizations, focusing primarily on English and Mandarin.
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Recent Work
- 2014 Contrastive Topic: Meanings and Realizations Ph.D. thesis, UMass Amherst.
- 2012 English Rise-Fall-Rise: A study in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation Linguistics and Philosophy 35(5):407–442. Preprint
- 2012 Witnessable Quantifiers License Type-e Meaning: Evidence from Contrastive Topic, Equatives and Supplements in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22:286–306. Slides
- 2012 Topic Abstraction as the Source for Nested Alternatives: A Conservative Semantics for Contrastive Topic in Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 30:120–130. Handout
- 2011 On the Independence of Mandarin Aspectual and Contrastive Sentence-Final ne in Proceedings of North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 23(2):15–29.
- 2011 Re-diagnosing Appositivity: Evidence for Prenominal Appositives from Mandarin to appear in Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 47.
- 2011 Appositives After All: Reevaluating Mandarin Relative Clauses an earlier, more detailed draft of the CLS 47 paper.
- 2010 Mandarin ne as Contrastive Topic: The Case of CT Questions Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information (WPSI 4). Handout
- 2010 Mandarin even, all and the Trigger of Focus Movement with Chloe Chenjie Gu. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium 16(1):21–30. Handout
- 2009 UMass Amherst Linguistics Sentiment Corpora with Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz.
- 2009 The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora with Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 33(1–2):5–21.
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Teaching
- Spring '12: Ling 510 (Intro to Semantics) with Angelika Kratzer
- Spring '11: Ling 201 (Linguistic Analysis)
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Resources
- A list of sonorant words ordered by frequency.
- A ranking of countries by how many languages they represent.
- The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary in IPA.
- Linquiry, a tool for organizing linguistic data and discussion.
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