Journal Articles
2024 (early view) "On the aspectual values of gradable predicates in Mandarin Chinese." Studia Linguistica.
2022 "Pedagogical issues related to the adverb dou in Mandarin Chinese." Chinese as a Second Language Research, 11(1), pp. 61-90.
2021 “On the syntax of wan ‘finish/complete’ in Mandarin Chinese.” Australian Journal of Linguistics 41(4), pp. 408-433.
2021 “Pedagogical and Theoretical Issues of V-V Compound Construction in Mandarin Chinese.” International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching 2(1), pp. 17-33.
2021 “On preverbal zai in Mandarin Chinese: its progressive and prepositional functions.” Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. 59(3): pp. 513–539
2018 “On the syntax of dynamic verbs in Mandarin Chinese.” Linguistics and Literature Studies 6(4), pp. 149-156.
2018 “On perfective -le in Mandarin Chinese: Theoretical and pedagogical issues.” Acta Linguistica Asiatic 8(2), pp. 131-151.
2015 “Aspectual coercion and the aspectual marker –zhe in Mandarin Chinese.” International Journal of Linguistics and Communication 3(2), pp. 119-134.
2015 “A contrastive analysis of the imperfective aspect in Chinese and English: Theoretical and pedagogical issues.” US-China Foreign Languages 13. pp. 652-662.
Conference Proceedings
2015 “On V-V compound resultative in Mandarin Chinese: Theoretical issues and pedagogical implications.” North America Conference in Chinese Linguistics 2015 (NACCL 2015) Proceedings. Los Angeles, CA: CA: UCLA.
2010 “The Locative zai in Mandarin Chinese”, Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2010 (WECOL 2010), Fresno, CA: California State University.
In Progress
(in prep.) "We are here in English but we are AT here in Mandarin Chinese."
(in prep.) "On the syntax and semantics of Chinese temporal phrases."
(in prep.) "A corpus analysis of Novice Vietnamese CFL learners’ uses of classifiers and measure words."
Conference Presentations (since 2016)
2023 “How to use Inductive approaches to teach grammar in a CSL class.” Paper presented at Eighth International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA. June 9th to 10th.
2023 “On the aspectual values of gradable adjective predicates in Mandarin Chinese.” Poster presented at 2023 Linguistics Society of America (LSA 2023). Denver, CO. January 5th to 8th.
2020 “On the syntax of telicity marking in Mandarin Chinese.” Paper presented at 2020 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2020; online). Cal. State, Fresno, CA. November 15th to 16th.
2019 “Material Developments and Classroom Activities for Business Chinese Classes.” Paper presented at Chinese Language Teacher Association Annual Meeting Conference (CLTA 2019). Seattle, WA. April 5th to 7th.
2018 “A revisit of the syntax and semantics of the word ZAI in Mandarin Chinese.” Paper presented at The International Workshop on Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical Parameters (IWSAGP). Beijing, China. June 20th to 21st.
2017 “On the syntax of wan ‘finish/complete’ in Mandarin Chinese.” Paper presented at The 2nd International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied linguistics (ISOCTAL 2). Milan, Italy. December 14th to 16th.
2017 “On the syntax of telicity marking in Mandarin Chinese.” Paper presented at 2017 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2017). Boise, ID. October 20th to 22nd.
2017 “Integrated Grammar Teaching Strategies in a CFL/CSL class.” Paper presented at The 15th BCLTS International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education. University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K. June 28th to 30th.
2016 “Teaching four skills in a foreign language class: A demonstration in a Chinese language class.” Paper presented at 2016 International Annual Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Taipei, Taiwan. December 23rd to 25th.
2016 “On the adverb dou in Mandarin Chinese: pedagogical and theoretical issues.” Paper presented at 2016 ACTFL & Chinese Language Teacher Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. November 18th to 20th.
2016 “Grammar instruction in a CFL/CSL classroom: theory and practice.” Paper presented at The Fourth International School Chinese Language Education Conference and Workshop. Kaohsiung, Taiwan. November 4th to 5th.
2016 “Aspectual particles in Mandarin Chinese: pedagogical and theoretical issues.” Paper presented at the 2016 CLTA Second International Symposium on Chinese Teaching and Learning (CLTA 2016). University of Maryland. College Park, MD. April 1st to 3rd.
