Very grateful and honored to have received the Graduate Dissertation Fellowship from BU Center for the Humanities for AY24-25!
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Notes on WCCFL presentation:
Most ppl find the markedness approach complex and not sure what motivates it. The form-meaning competition might be modeled by Maximization instead of Horn's P- and Q-Principle. The overgenerate problem might be constrained in pragmatics. Top 3 fav talks: Treatment of "then" and PRES as pronouns with perspectival presuppositions (Anastasia Tsilia and Zhuoye Zhao) Dissociating recoverability and identity in double ellipsis (Richard Stockwell) Treating relevance as a dynamic constraint and an updating CQ system (Ido Benbaji-Elhadad and Omri Doron) My dissertation prospectus on The Syntax and Semantics of Ersu Degree Constructions is defended and approved today. Many thanks to my dissertation committee for all the great comments and revision suggestions.
I am also nominated by the department for the Graduate Dissertation Fellowship from the Boston University Center for the Humanities. Thrilled to be presenting my work on formal and semantic markedness alignment in Ersu at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) this April at UCBerkeley.
Abstract link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/181QMmesP2JyS45mcAqrudU1wj3t7Jf6P/view Very glad to give a talk on Mandarin degree abstraction at Tianjin University, China. It's been almost 7 years since I graduated. Time flies!
Two abstracts on my Ersu project will be presented at the 3rd Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA) this May at the Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. I will give a talk on Ersu gradable predicates and another one on Ersu sibilants variations with Andre.
My work on Ersu Gradable Adjective Forms under DM was presented at LSA annual meeting this weekend. This abstract drafts a preliminary analysis of the morpho-semantic features of Ersu gradable adjectives -- but maybe we should hold on a sec to call them "adjectives" (a comment from Heidi Harley).
Awarded the Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship ($16,210) from BU to carry out a fieldwork on Ersu during the summer. Can't wait to start my next fieldwork journey!
My co-authored paper with Liz is accepted at Natural Language Semantics! (Finally!) So grateful to many people who have helped and supported us, especially our great reviewers and editor.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-023-09217-w Free access to the accepted manuscript: Is Degree Abstraction a Parameter or a Universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese Liz and I have been working on the degree system of Mòoré for A while, and finally we have something neat to present at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) at McGill University, Montreal in May 2024.
Abstract: No need for the Degree Abstraction Parameter Mòoré |
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