Papers

• 1996. A role of lexical quantifiers. Studies of the Linguistic Sciences 26(1/2), 307-323.

• 1997. The parametric approach to the resultative construction in Chinese and English. In UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 3, ed. Luther C.-S. Liu and Kazue Takeda, 203-226. Irvine: Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

• 1998. On the 'inverted' double object construction. In Studies in Cantonese Linguistics, ed. Stephen Matthews, 35-52. Hong Kong: The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 1998. Bare and not-so-bare small clauses: evidence from Japanese. In UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 4, ed. Hidehito Hoshi, 199-223. Irvine: Irvine Linguistics Students Association.
  
  
• 1999. Some speculations about the syntax of noun phrases. In UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 5, ed. Francesca Del Gobbo and Hidehito Hoshi, 135-154. Irvine: Irvine Linguistics Students Association.
  
  
• 2000. Identity avoidance and constraint interaction: the case of Cantonese. Linguistics 38, 33-61.
  
  
• 2000. Interactions of sentence final particles and verb movement. In Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, Volume 11, ed. Nancy Mae Antrim, Grant Goodall, Martha Schulte-Nafeh, and Vida Samiian, 470-479. Fresno: Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.
  
  
• 2000. 自然語言的詞序和短語結構理論 [Word order in natural languages and the theory of phrase structure],《當代語言學》[Contemporary Linguistics] 3, 138-154. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2001, Vol. 3.
  
  
• 2000. 粵語「容乜易」的「乜」['Mat1' in Cantonese 'jung4 mat1 ji6'],《中國語文通訊》[Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun] 56, 1-4.
  
  
• 2000. 粵語量化詞「得」的一些特點 [Some characteristics of the quantifier dak in Cantonese], 《方言（增刊）：第七屆國際粵方言研討會論文集》[Fangyan: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects], 425-433. 北京：商務印書館.
  
  
• 2000. 粵語被動句施事者的省略和「原則與參數語法」[Omission of the agent argument in Cantonese passives and the principles-and-parameters framework],《中文學刊》[The Chinese Academic Journal] 2, 243-260.
  
  
• 2001. Nominal predication and focus anchoring. In Gerhard Jager, Anatoli Strigin, Chris Wilder, and Niina Zhang eds., ZAS Papers in Linguistics 22, 159-172. Berlin: ZAS.
  
  
• 2001. A complementation approach to Chinese passives and its consequences. Linguistics 39, 257-295.
  
  
• 2001. The (non-)existence of gapping in Chinese and its implications for the theory of gapping. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10, 201-224.
  
  
• 2001. 粵語助詞「翻」的應用條件 [The application conditions of the Cantonese particle faan], 《中國語文通訊》 [Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun] 60, 50-55.
  
  
• 2001. On QU-features. In UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 7, ed. Maki Irie and Hajime Ono, 191-204. Irvine: Irvine Linguistics Students Association.
  
  
• 2002. 經濟原則和漢語沒有動詞的句子 [Economy principles and Chinese verbless sentences], 《現代外語》[Modern Foreign Languages] Vol. 25, No. 1, 1-13.
  
  
• 2002. 漢語時間詞謂語句的限制條件 [Some constraints on temporal predicative sentences in Chinese],《中國語文》[Zhongguo Yuwen] Vol. 288, No. 3, 217-221. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2002, Vol. 9.
  
  
• 2002. Focus and dak in Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 30(2), 266-309.
  
  
• 2002. 粵語拼音教學的重要性 [The importance of Cantonese romanization teaching], 《語文教學》Vol. 17, 18-23. [PDF]
  
  
• 2002. 粵語句末助詞的不對稱分布 [Asymmetric distribution of Cantonese sentence final particles], 《中國語文研究》[Studies in Chinese Linguistics] No. 2 (Serial No. 14), 75-84.
  
  
• 2002. Grammaticalization as structure elimination. Webfest for Horst-Dieter Gasde, ed. Danial Hole, Paul Law, and Niina Zhang. Berlin: ZAS.
  
  
• 2002. 粵語「嗱」的一些語言特點 [Some linguistic properties of naa4 in Cantonese], 《中國語文通訊》[Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun] 64, 43-49.
  
  
• 2002. The parametric theory of verb movement and its consequences. In On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages, ed. Sze-Wing Tang and Chen-sheng Luther Liu, 102-125. Stanford: CSLI.
  
  
• 2002. Extraction in control structures in Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale Vol. 31 No. 2, 261-272.
  
  
• 2002. 漢語的「給」是不是一個被動標記？[Is Chinese gei a passive marker?], 《漢語語法研究的新拓展（一）》（徐烈炯、邵敬敏編）, 331-341. 浙江教育出版社.
  
  
• 2003. Properties of ngaang and the syntax of verbal particles in Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 31(2), 245-269.
  
  
• 2003. Verbless adverbial clauses and economy. In Chinese Syntax and Semantics, ed. Jie Xu, Donghong Ji, and Kim Teng Lua, 157-176. Singapore: Prentice Hall.
  
  
• 2003. 粵語述語助詞「噉」的一些特點 [Properties of the verbal particle gam2 in Cantonese]. 《第八屆國際粵方言研討會論文集》[Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects], 570-586. 北京：中國社會科學出版社.
  
  
• 2003. 數量詞主語的指稱和情態 [The reference of the numeral subject and modality].《語法研究和探索（十二）》, 292-308. 北京：商務印書館.
  
  
• 2004. 從南雄珠璣方言看被動句 [Structures of passives as illustrated by Zhuji dialect spoken in Nanxiong, northern Guangdong Province]. 《方言》 [Fangyan], No. 2, 111-116.
  
  
• 2004. 作格化和漢語被動句 [Ergativization and Chinese passives]. 《中國語文》[Zhongguo Yuwen], Vol. 301, No. 4, 291-301.
  
  
• 2004. 空動詞從屬小句的特點 [Properties of empty verb subordinate clauses].《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], No. 1, 23-32.
  
  
• 2005. 從生成語法學觀點看「小句中樞說」[A generative approach to the theory of clausal pivot]. 《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], No. 1, 56-63. [PDF]. Also collected in 《小句中樞說》[The Theory of Clausal Pivot], ed. 《漢語學報》編輯部, 99-112. 長春：東北師範大學出版社 [Changchun: Northeast Normal University Press]. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2005, Vol. 5.
  
  
• 2005. 雙方言語法研究的重要性────以被動句為例 [The importance of the research in bi-dialectal grammar: evidence from passive sentences]. 《雙語雙方言（八）》[Bilingualism and bi-dialectalism 8], 109-115. 漢學出版社.
  
  
• 2005. A theory of licensing in English syntax and its applications. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics Vol. 5, No. 1, 1-25.
  
  
• 2005. 最簡方案與漢語語法研究 [The minimalist program and the study of Chinese grammar]. 《語言學前沿與漢語研究》（劉丹青主編）, 106-122（第五章）. 上海：上海教育出版社.
  
  
• 2006. 粵語「得滯、乜滯、咁滯」是否屬於同一個家族？ [Do dakzai, matzai, and gamzai in Cantonese belong to the same family?]《中國語文研究》[Studies in Chinese Linguistics], No. 1 (Serial No. 21), 1-11.
  
  
• 2006. 漢語被動句的三個句法問題 [Three syntactic issues of Chinese passives].《漢語被動表述問題研究新拓展》[New developments in the studies of Chinese passives]（邢福義主編）, 92-99. 武漢：華中師範大學出版社.
  
  
• 2006. 粵語疑問句末「先」字的句法特點 [Syntactic properties of sin in Cantonese interrogatives]. 《中國語文》[Zhongguo Yuwen], Vol. 312, No. 3, 225-232. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, Vol. 8, 88-95.
  
  
• 2006. 粵語框式虛詞結構的句法分析 [A syntactic analysis of the discontinuous construction of function words in Cantonese].《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], Vol 14, No. 2., 16-23.
  
  
• 2006. A minimalist view on the syntax of BECOME. In Minimalist Views on Language Design, ed. Changguk Yim, 301-311. Seoul: Hankook Publishing Company/The Korean Generative Grammar Circle.
  
  
• 2006. 以「的」為中心語的一些問題 [On de as a head in Chinese].《當代語言學》[Contemporary Linguistics], Vol. 8, No. 3., 205-212.
  
  
• 2006. 漢語方言受事話題句類型的參數分析 [A parametric approach to the typology of subtopics in Chinese dialects]. 《語言科學》[Linguistic Sciences], Vol. 5, No. 6, 3-11. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2007, Vol. 5.
  
  
• 2007. The indexical expressions gam2, gam3 in Cantonese. In Studies in Cantonese Linguistics 2, ed. Joanna Ut-seong Sio and Sze-Wing Tang, 55-73. Hong Kong: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. (co-authored with Joanna Ut-seong Sio)
  
  
• 2007. 格位理論與短語的選擇 [Case theory and the selection of phrases]. In 《漢語方言語法研究》（第二輯）[Studies on Chinese Dialectal Grammar Vol 2], 汪國勝主編 [ed., Guosheng Wang], 51-68. 武漢：華中師範大學出版社 [Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press].
  
  
• 2007. 粵語框式虛詞的局部性和多重性 [Locality and multiplicity of function words in the discontinuous construction in Cantonese]. In《第十屆國際粵方言研討會論文集》[Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Yue Dialects], 張洪年、張雙慶、陳雄根主編, 262-276. 北京：中國社會科學出版社 [Beijing: China Social Sciences Press].
  
  
• 2008. Some notes on gam2 and gam3 in Cantonese. In Selected Papers from the 2006 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, ed. Colleen Wong, 98-108. Hong Kong: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. (co-authored with Joanna Ut-seong Sio)
  
  
• 2008. 漢語複合詞的論元結構 [On the argument structure of Chinese compounds]. 《語言教學與研究》[Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies], No. 4, 10-17. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, Vol. 10, 58-65.
  
  
• 2008. 為甚麼問「乜」？ [Why mat in Cantonese?]《中國語文研究》[Studies in Chinese Linguistics], No. 1 (Serial No. 25), 9-19. Also reprinted in 劉新中主編：《廣東漢語方言研究的理論與實踐》, 廣州：世界圖書出版公司 (2012), 165-176.
  
  
• 2008. 「連」的強調與否定極性：普通話和湘語的比較 [On the emphatic and negative polarity uses of lian 'even': comparison between Mandarin and Xiang dialects].《漢藏語學報》[Journal of Sino-Tibetan Linguistics], Volume 2, 124-134.
  
  
• 2008. 輕動詞在漢語句法和詞法上的地位 [Light verbs in Chinese syntax and morphology].《現代中國語研究》[Contemporary Research in Modern Chinese] No. 10, 11-17. Also reprinted in 《現代中國語研究》 [Contemporary Research in Modern Chinese], 2018, No. 3, 230-239.
  
  
• 2008. 漢語被動句句法分析的重新思考 [Syntactic analysis of Chinese passives: revisited]. 《當代語言學》[Contemporary Linguistics] Volume 10, Number 4, 308-319. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2009, Vol. 1, 35-44.
  
  
• 2008. 粵語框式虛詞「咪……囉」的句法特點 [Syntactic properties of the discontinuous construction mai ... lo in Cantonese]. 《中國語言學集刊》[Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics] Volume 3, Number 1, 145-159.
  
  
• 2008. 「形義錯配」與名物化的參數分析 [On “syntax-semantics mismatches” and a parametric analysis of nominalization]. 《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], Vol 24, No. 4., 72-79. Also reprinted in 《多視角語法比較研究》（徐杰、匡鵬飛主編）, 武漢：華中師範大學出版社 (2011), 383-394. Its abstract is reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2009, Vol. 5, “論點摘編”, 130.
  
  
• 2009. 話題句的形成 [Formation of topic sentences]. In《漢語的形式與功能研究》[Formal and Functional Studies in Chinese], 程工、劉丹青主編 [ed. by Gong Cheng and Danqing Liu], 36-49. 北京：商務印書館 [Beijing: The Commercial Press].
  
  
• 2009. 粵語句末「住」和框式虛詞結構 [The sentence final particle zyu and the discontinuous constructions in Cantonese].《中國語文》[Zhongguo Yuwen] No. 3, 234-240.
  
  
• 2009. 「他的老師當得好」及漢語方言的名物化 [Ta-de laoshi dang-de hao and nominalization in Chinese dialects]. 《語言科學》[Linguistic Sciences] Vol. 8, No. 3, 239-247.
  
  
• 2009. 普通話、粵語比較義系詞句的句法差異及相關問題 [The copular construction with a comparative interpretation in Mandarin and Cantonese].《漢語學習》[Chinese Language Learning] No. 3, 23-27. (co-authored with Heyou Zhang)
  
  
• 2009. The syntax of two approximatives in Cantonese: discontinuous constructions formed with zai6. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 37(2), 227-256.
  
  
• 2009. 階段式的句法推導 [Phasehood in syntactic derivations: an introductory survey].《當代語言學》[Contemporary Linguistics] Volume 11, Number 3, 207-215.
  
  
• 2009. 粵語句末助詞「罷啦」及其框式結構 [The sentence final particle baalaa and its discontinuous construction in Cantonese].《粵語跨學科研究：第十三屆國際粵方言研討會論文集》[Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Cantonese Studies: Papers from the 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Yue Dialects]. Hong Kong: Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 415-427.
  
  
• 2009. 香港「潮語」構詞的初探 [Word Formation of Hong Kong Trendy Expressions].《中國語文研究》[Studies in Chinese Linguistics], No. 2 (Serial No. 28), 11-21.

• 2009. 漢語方言空語類的參數分析 [A parametric analysis of empty categories in Chinese dialects]. 《語言學論叢》[Essays on Linguistics] Volume 39, 328-339. Beijing: The Commercial Press. Its abstract is reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2010, Vol. 9, “論點摘編”, 123.
  

• 2009. 簡論普通話與粵語的蒙受句 [On the affective constructions in Mandarin and Cantonese]. In《南方語言學》[Southern Linguistics], 甘于恩主編 [ed., by Yu’en Gan], Volume 1, 110-115. Guangzhou: Jinan University Press.

• 2009. 怎麼用甚麼問為甚麼──歷時和共時的研究 [How to ask why by using what - a diachronic and synchronic perspective]. 《語言學論叢》[Essays on Linguistics] Volume 40, 233-250. Beijing: The Commercial Press.
  

• 2010. 與空語類相關的特異型「是」字句的句法、語義 [On the syntax and semantics of the idiosyncratic copular sentences and empty categories].《當代語言學》[Contemporary Linguistics] Volume 12, Number 1, 14-23. (co-authored with Heyou Zhang)

• 2010. 漢語句類和語氣的句法分析 [A syntactic analysis of clause types and mood in Chinese]. 《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], Volume 29, No. 1, 59-63.
  
  
• 2010. 「形義錯配」與漢英的差異──再談「他的老師當得好」 [Syntax-semantics mismatches and their variation in Chinese and English: Ta-de laoshi dang-de hao revisited]. 《語言教學與研究》[Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] No. 3, 51-56.
  
  
• 2010. 湘語邵東話助詞「起 / 倒」的語法特點 [On the grammatical features of the verbal particles qi / dao in the Shaodong Xiang dialect]. 《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)] No. 4, 36-42. (co-authored with Su'e Lin)
  
  
• 2011. 問原因的「怎麼」 [On causal how in Chinese] 《語言教學與研究》[Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] No. 2, 43-47. Also reprinted in 邵敬敏、石定栩主編：《漢語語法研究的新拓展（五）》北京：北京大學出版社 [Beijing: Peking University Press] (2011), 105-112, and reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2011, Vol. 6, 55-59.
  
  
• 2011. A parametric approach to NP ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 20(2), 107-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-010-9067-7
  
  
• 2011. 空語類的允准及普通話、粵語話題類繫詞句的句法差異 [Licensing of empty categories and the syntactic variation of copular topic sentences in Mandarin and Cantonese].《語言科學》[Linguistic Sciences], Vol 10, No. 1, 58-69. (co-authored with Heyou Zhang)
  
  
• 2011. 論「是」與「yes」[Remarks on shi and yes].《現代外語》[Modern Foreign Languages]. Vol 34, No. 2, 111-118. (co-authored with Heyou Zhang)
  
  
• 2011. On gerundive nominalization in Mandarin and Cantonese. In Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives [Typological Studies in Language 96], ed. Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Harsta, and Janick Wrona, 147-160. Amsterdam & Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.96.05tan]
  
  
• 2011. 論現代漢語的兩種不同保留賓語句 [Two kinds of retained object constructions in Mandarin Chinese].《外語教學與研究》[Foreign Language Teaching and Research], Vol 43, No. 4, 512-528. (co-authored with Qingwen Zhang) **榮獲廣東省2010-2011年度哲學社會科學優秀成果（論文類）三等獎**
  
  
• 2011. 粵語句法學研究的原因、方法、課題 [Rationales, methodologies, and topics for the research of Cantonese syntax].《中國語文研究》[Studies in Chinese Linguistics], Vol 31-32, 45-50.
  
  
• 2012. 言域的句法分析──以粵語「先」為例 [A syntactic analysis of the speech act domain: evidence from sin in Cantonese].《語言科學》[Linguistic Sciences], Vol 11, No. 1, 9-14.
  
  
• 2012. 再說「年、月、日」[Chinese temporal nominals "year", "month", and "day": revisited].《語言教學與研究》[Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies], No. 2, 39-43.
  
  
• 2012. 詞法性還是句法性：論「X 是」的接口特徵 [Morphological or syntactic: remarks on morphology-syntax interface features of complex conjunctions and adverbs "X + shi" in Chinese].《世界漢語教學》[Chinese Teaching in the World], Vol 26, No. 3, 338-346. (co-authored with Heyou Zhang)
  
  
• 2013. 方言語法問題研究的思考 [Reflection on the Research of Chinese Dialectal Grammar].《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], Volume 42, No. 2, 9-15.
  
  
• 2013. 漢語動詞複數的語義特徵及表現形式 [Some semantic properties and realizations of the verbal plurality in Chinese]. 《現代外語》[Modern Foreign Languages], Vol 36, No. 3, 246-253. (co-authored with Qingwen Zhang and Hongyong Liu)
  
  
• 2013. 動詞分類、語義選擇與漢語的空賓語結構 [Verbal classification, semantic features, and null object construction in Chinese]. 《北京師範大學學報（社會科學版）》[Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Sciences)] 4, 49-56. (co-authored with Heyou Zhang)
  
  
• 2013. 「年、月、日」等及其句法特點 [Chinese temporal nominals "year", "month", and "day" and their syntactic properties].《走向當代前沿科學的現代漢語語法研究》, 沈陽主編 [ed., Yang SHEN], 61-69. Beijing: Commercial Press.
  
  
• 2013. 再談「了2」的行、知、言三域——以粵語為例 [Three conceptual domains of the sentence final particle laa in Cantonese].《中國語文》[Zhongguo Yuwen] No. 3, 195-200.
  
  
• 2014. 漢語複合詞的不對稱現象 [Asymmetry in Chinese Compound Formation]. 《漢語學報》[Chinese Linguistics], Vol. 45, No. 1, 69-77. Also reprinted in 《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] （中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]）, 2014, Vol. 6, 61-69.
  
  
• 2014. 共性與差異：粵方言名詞短語研究 [Similarities and differences: a study of nominals in Yue dialects]. Language and Linguistics 15(5), 733-760. (co-authored with Qingwen Zhang)
  
  
• 2014. Languagehood of Cantonese: a renewed front in an old debate. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 4, 389-398 (co-authored with Siu-pong Cheng).
  
  
• 2014. Aspects of Cantonese grammar. In C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li, and Andrew Simpson, eds., The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, 601-628. Malden, MA, and Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (co-authored with Siu-Pong Cheng)
  
  
• 2014. 粵語謂詞性語氣詞 [Predicative utterance particles in Cantonese]. In Che-wah Ho (何志華) and Shengli Feng (馮勝利), eds.,《繼承與拓新：漢語語言文字學研究》（下冊）[Moving Forward - Studies on Chinese Linguistics and Philology, Volume II], 427-444. Hong Kong: Commercial Press.
  
  
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• 2018. 話語角色動詞與雙賓句 [Discourse-role verbs and the double object construction].《外語教學與研究》[Foreign Language Teaching and Research] Vol.50 No.2, 186-194.
  
  
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• 2018. 全球華語詞匯研究的參數分析 —— 以「點算」為例  [A parametric approach to lexicology of Global Chinese: a case study]. 《漢語學報》[Chinese Linguistics], Vol. 64, No. 4, 2-10.
  
  
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• 2019. 詞彙層次的句末助詞  [Sentence-final particles in the lexical layer].《語言教學與研究》[Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] 3, 38-45.
  
  
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• 2020. Two types of aa3-nominals in Cantonese.  Language and Linguistics 21(1), 80-103. (co-authored with Joanna Ut-Seong Sio). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00058.sio
  
  
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• 2020. 「粵港澳大灣區的語言生活」多人談   [Dialogues on the language situation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area],《語言戰略研究》[Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning] 1, 71-77. (with Ning Wang, Siu-lam Tin, Zhixiang Tang, Jian Zhou, and Doreen Wu)
  
  
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• 2021. 粵語動詞後綴「住」的語法限制  [Grammatical constraints on the verbal suffix zyu6 in Cantonese]. Newsletter of Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture《田家炳中華文化中心通訊》7(1), 8-10.
  
  
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• 2022. On the syntax of incompleteness: evidence from the converbal construction in Cantonese.  In Andrew Simpson, ed., New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in Honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, 395-427. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.272.14tan]


• 2022. On the syntax of the negative marker mei6 in Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 50(2), 323-347. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2022.0013]
  
  
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• 2022. 否定義「甚麼」的語法問題 [On the grammar of the negative expression shenme in Chinese].《語言學論叢》[Essays in Linguistics] 1, 31-57.
  
  
• 2022. On the syntax of rhetorical questions: evidence from Cantonese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 31(3), 305-349. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-022-09241-7]
  
  
• 2022. Lexical variations in Asian Chinese speaking communities: a corpus-informed study of online, offline, and digital. Global Chinese 8(2), 161-187. (with Jesse Wai Chi YIP) [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2022-0001]
  
  
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• 2023. 助詞的句法語音特點——以粵語「呢」為例 [Some syntactic and phonetic properties of particles: a case study of ne in Cantonese],《中國語文》[Zhongguo Yuwen, Studies of the Chinese Language] No. 2, 131-138 (with Ling ZHANG and Ka-ming TAM)
  
  
• 2023. 粵港澳大灣區漢語語言學的教研狀況 [The teaching and research situations of Chinese linguistics in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area]. In 屈哨兵 Shaobing Qu, ed., 《粵港澳大灣區語言生活狀況報告（2023）》[Report on the Status of Language Life in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2023)], 174-182. Beijing: Commercial Press. (with Xinjunrong Huang)
  
  
• 2023. 漢語拼音分詞連寫的語法問題 [Grammatical challenges in word segmentation of Chinese phonetic alphabet orthography], 《語言政策與規劃研究》[Journal of Language Policy and Language Planning], No. 18, 1-9.