Structure of restrictive relative clauses in Nuosu Yi (with Suhua Hu)
Split Intransitivity in Mandarin (with Shin Fukuda, Yuchuan Chen, Yao Huang)
Quantification and scope interaction in Mandarin
2021
The puzzle of anaphoric bare nouns in Mandarin: A counterpoint to Index! (jointly with Veneeta Dayal), Linguistic Inquiry (《语言学探索》) https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00433 (pdf)
The Chinese classifier system as a syntactic system (with Peter Jenks and Jing Jin). In Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin and I-Hsuan Chen (eds), Cambridge Handbook on Chinese Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press (pdf)
2020
Nominal Arguments and Language Variation. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, Oxford University Press
Mandarin associative plural -men and NPs with -men. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (《国际中国语言学学报》) 4:2, 191-256. doi: 10.1075/ijchl.16015.jia (pdf)
Noun phrases in Lhasa Tibetan (with Yunchuan Chen). Submitted, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics. (pdf)
A parametric analysis of nominal arguments in classifier languages. In Y.-H. Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson and W.-T. Dylan Tsai (eds), Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, 51-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945658.001.0001
2012
Nominal arguments and language variation. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. (pdf)
2011
An overt determiner in a classifier language (with Suhua Hu). In Ming-le Gao (eds).Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW-in-Asia VIII, 205-211. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press. (pdf)