Faculty
Director
Ph.D. Linguistics, Boston University, Boston.
M.A. Linguistics, San Diego State University, San Diego.
B.A. French, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Journal Articles
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.
In Progress
(under review) "On the aspectual values of gradable adjectival predicates in Mandarin Chinese."
(in prep.) "A corpus analysis of Novice Vietnamese CFL learners’ uses of classifiers and measure words." "
Department of Modern Languages
University of Colorado Denver
Campus Box 178, PO Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217