Professor SHI, Dingxu(Ph.D., M.A., B.A.)

Areas of Scholarship:

Chinese linguistics, syntax and semantics, language contact and

language change, teaching Chinese to non-native speakers

Education   

Work Experience

Research Output  

• 1989. “Topic Chain As A Syntactic Category In Chinese”. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.223 262.

• 1990. “The Structure Of Postverbal Adverbials Associated With DE”. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 25.2.43 64.

• 1991. “Chinese Pidgin English, Its Origin And Linguistic Features”. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 19.1 1 41.

• 1992a. “On The Etymology Of Pidgin”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7.343 347.

• 1993a. “Learning Pidgin English Through Chinese Characters”. In F. Byrne and J. Holm eds. The Atlantic Meets the Pacific,459 465. John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam.

• 1993b. “Review of Jiangyong Nüshu Zhi Mi (The Myth Of Jiangyong Female Writing), by Xie, Zhimin (1991)”. Language 69.1.174 178.

• 1994a. “The Nature Of Chinese WH Questions”. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 12.301 333.

• 1994b. “The Nature Of Chinese Emphatic Sentences”. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 3.1.81 100.

• 1995a.  “The History and State of the Art of the Study on Pidgin and Creole Languages”. Linguistics Abroad 95.4. 1-8.

• 1996a. “The Yi Scripts”. In Peter Daniels and Williams Bright eds. The World's Writing Systems, 239-243, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

• 1996b. “The Nature of Chinese Verb-Duplication Constructions”. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 26.271-284.

• 1997a.  “The State of the Art of the Study on Chinese Linguistics, Linguistics Abroad 97.1.19-25.

• 1997b. “Issues On Chinese Passives”. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 25.1.41-70.

• 1997c.  “The Transitivity of Chinese V-R Constructions”.  Studies of Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun) 42.22-30. (Co-Authored with Lingling Wang).

• 1997d.  “Marking Topic-Subject in Chinese Sentences”. In Liwei Chen and Qi Yuan eds. Language Engineering, 102-108, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing. (Co-Authored with Xiaohe Chen).

• 1997e.  “Machine Translation between Chinese Dialects”. In Liwei Chen and Qi Yuaneds. Language Engineering,  225-231, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing. (Co-Authored with Xiaoheng Zhang).

• 1997f.  “Shi, De and Nominalization”. Studies of Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun) 43.13-18.

• 1998a. “Corpus CDBMS and CSQL”. Contemporary Linguistics (Linguistics Abroad)1.29-36 (Co-Authored with Xiaoheng Zhang).

• 1998b. “The Nature of Chinese Topics”. Modern Foreign Languages ’98.2.40-57.

• 1998c. “Standard Chinese and Language Teaching in Hong Kong”. Language Teaching and Studies 54-65.

• 1998d. “The Complex Nature of V-C Constructions”. In Gu, Yang ed. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 23-52. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 1999a. “Studies on Chinese Topic-Comment Constructions”. In Xu, Liejiong ed.Similarities and Differences: Debates in Chinese Linguistics, 1-39. The Press of Beijing Culture and Language University, Beijing.

• 1999b. “Studies on Interrogative Sentences”. In Xu, Liejiong ed. Similarities and Differences: Debates in Chinese Linguistics, 40-75. The Press of Beijing Culture and Language University, Beijing.

• 1999c. “Studies on Ba and Bei Constructions”. In Xu, Liejiong ed. Similarities and Differences: Debates in Chinese Linguistics, 111-138.9. The Press of Beijing Culture and Language University, Beijing.

• 1999d.   “Topic and Subject in Classical Chinese”. In Michael Fuller ed.  An Introduction to Literary Chinese, 257-272. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

• 1999e. “The English Influence on Written Chinese in Hong Kong”. Journal of Foreign Languages ’99.4.2-11. (co-authored with Chu Chi Yu).

• 1999f. “The Smallest Unit in Processing Chinese”. In Changning Huang and Zhendong Dong eds. An Anthology of Chinese Computational Linguistics, 256-260. Tsinghua University Press, Beijing.

• 2000a. “The Flexibility of Chinese and the Theory of Syntax”. Contemporary Linguistics 1.18-26.

• 2000b. “English and Hong Kong Written Chinese”.  Foreign Language Teaching and Research 32.3.200-206, co-authored with Chu Chi Yu.

• 2000c. “Topic and Topic-Comment Constructions in Mandarin Chinese”. Language76.2.383-408.

• 2000d. “The Influence of Dialects and the Teaching of Putonghua”. Asia Pacific Journal of Language in Education 2.2. 125-134.

• 2000e.   “Semantics, Syntax, Discourse and Pragmatics: the Case of Chinese De Constructions”. Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 10, 310-325, eds. Mei Fang and Bojiang Zhang. The Commercial Press, Beijing.

• 2001a.    “Hong Kong Written Chinese and Language Teaching”. In Li, David, Angel Lin and Wai King Tsang eds. Language and Education in Postcolonial Hong Kong 197-213, The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2001b. “Object-Taking Adjectives in Cantonese”. In Luke, Kang Kwong and Sin, Chow Yiu eds. Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, 407-413, the Commercial Press, Beijing.

• 2001c. “Dialects and Putonghua Test”. In Lee Hok Ming ed. Theories and Practice of Language Test, the Commercial Press, Hong Kong.

• 2001d. “Syntactic Status of Reduplicated Adjectives”. Studies of Chinese 2.70-75.

• 2001e “Syntactic Characteristics of Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Studies of the Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 6.558-564. (Co-authored with Jinzhi Su and Chi-yu Chu).

• 2001f. “The Nature of Chinese Comparatives”. In Haihua Pan ed. Studies in Chinese Linguistics II, 138-158, The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2002a. “The Syntactic Status of Compound and Phrase in Modern Chinese”. Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 11, 35-51, eds. Mei Fang and Bojiang Zhang. The Commercial Press, Beijing.

• 2002b. “Reading Guide”, to The Morphology of Chinese by Jerome Packard”, f31-45, the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing.

• 2002c. “Hong Kong Written Chinese: Residues of Classic Chinese, Transfer of Cantonese and Others”, Applied Linguistics 3.23-32. (co-authored with Canlong Wang and Chi-yu Chu).

• 2002d. “The Structure and Meaning of Nominal Predicates in Chinese”, in Liejiong Xu and Jinming Shao eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar, 465-480, Hangzhou: the Zhejiang Education Press.

• 2003a. “Syntactic Shift in Hong Kong Written Chinese”, Foreign Language Teaching and Research 35.1.4-12 (co-authored with Chu Chi-yu and Canlong Wang).

• 2003b. “Notes from the Editor”, Foreign Language Teaching and Research 35.1.4.        

• 2003c. “The Latest Development of Chomsky’s Theory of Syntax”, Contemporary Linguistics 5.1.33-40.

• 2003d. “Theoretic Grammar and the Teaching of Chinese Language: the syntactic status of shi and others”, Chinese Teaching in the World 2.5-12.

• 2003e. “The Nature of Chinese Nominal Predicates”, in Jie Xu, Donghong Ji and Kim-Teng Lua eds., Chinese Syntax and Semantics 79-100, Singapore and London: Prentice Hall.

• 2003f. “The Syntactic Status of Pre-Verbal Chinese Patient NPs”, Studies of Chinese Language 2.15-23.

• 2003g. “Chinese Modifier-Modifiee V-O Compounds”, Studies of the ChineseLanguage(Zhongguo Yuwen) 6.483-495.

• 2004a.    “Nominalization of Verbs and Verb Phrases”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 12, 255-273, eds. Mei Fang and Bojiang Zhang. The Commercial Press, Beijing.

• 2004b.   “Nominalization, Materialization and the DE Construction”, in Huang, James ed. Anthology of Chinese Linguistics, pp 78-92, The Press of the Beijing Language University, Beijing.

• 2005a.”On Bei Passives in Chinese”, Chinese Linguistics 1.38-48。

• 2005b.  “The Scope of Interaction between Pragmatics, Semantics and Syntax”. In Shao, Jingmin and Kang-kwong Luke eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar II, pp465-480, Hangzhou: the Zhejiang Education Press.

• 2005c. “The Origin and Resolution of Ambiguity in Chinese V-N Constructions”. Language Teaching and Studies 3.1-8.

• 2005d. “The Characteristics Aspect Marker in Hong Kong Written Chinese”. In the Shenzhen-HK-Macau Institute of Language Studies ed., Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, pp285-293. The Hanxue Press, Shenzhen, co-authored with Chu, Chi-yu.

• 2005e. “On Referential and Asserting Properties of Verbal Element”, Chinese Language Learning 4.3-10.

• 2005f. “Conditions on the Completeness of Sentences and the Licensing of Referential Features”, Linguistic Sciences 5.42-49.（co-authored with Jianhua Hu）

• 2005g. “English Influence on Hong Kong Written Chinese: the case of homographs”, Journal of Foreign Languages 6.2-9. （co-authored with Chu Chi-yu）

• 2005h. “The Interaction of Syntax with Semantics, Pragmatics and Phonology”. Xueliang Xiong and Gang Cai eds. Language Interface pp.4-18. Fudan University Press, Shanghai.

• 2005i. “The Binding Principle B”. Xueliang Xiong and Gang Cai eds. Language Interface pp.39-47. Fudan University Press, Shanghai. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu)

• 2005j. “The Syntactic Status of Bei”. Contemporary Linguistics 7.3.213-224. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu)

• 2005k. “Postposted Adverbial and the Syntactic Properties of Cantonese Adverbs”.Tang Kingban and Chuilan Tong eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, pp320-325, The Macau Society of Chinese Language, Macau.

• 2006a. “Binding Principle B and the intra-sentential reference of pronouns”. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 1.3-9. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu)

• 2006b. “On the Grammatical Features of Written Chinese in Hong Kong”. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 2.128-126. (Co-authored with Dongmei Wang)

• 2006c. “On the Syntactic Status of the Post-verbal Numeral Phrases”. Chinese Linguistics 1.51-58. (also appears in Xu, Jie and Yao, Shuangyun eds. Studies on Verbs and Objects, pp21-33, Wuhan: Press of the Central China Normal University).

• 2006d. “On the Ambiguity of Markedness”. Contemporary Linguistics 1.86-88.

• 2006e. “Hong Kong Written Chinese: Language change induced by language contact”. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16.2.299-318.

• 2006f. “The Syntax and Semantics of Le2”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 13, 94-112, ed. Studies of the Chinese Language(Zhongguo Yuwen). The Commercial Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Jianhua Hu)

• 2006g. “The Interaction between Quantifier Adverbs and Le and Guo”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 13, 185-195, ed. Studies of the Chinese Language(Zhongguo Yuwen). The Commercial Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Jianhua Hu）

• 2006h. “Homographs in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese: the influence of Hong Kong culture and the Cantonese dialect”, 201-208, ed. Zhangtai Chen, Hongliang Dai, Longsheng Guo, Yuming Li, Junying Xie and Xishuang Yao, Theory and Practice of Language Planning, The Chinese Language Press, Beijing. (Co-authored with Chiyu Chu)

• 2006i. “Hong Kong Written Chinese and Language Variation”, Journal of East China Normal University: Philosophy and Social Science Edition 2.84-90. (Co-authored with Jingmin Shao)

• 2006j. “Variations in Hong Kong Written Chinese and their Origin”, in Dah-an Ho, H. Samuel Cheung, Wuyun Pan and Fuxiang Wu eds., Linguistic Studies in Chinese and Neighboring Languages: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Pang-hsin Ting on his 70th Birthday, pp625-644, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. (Co-authored with Jingmin Shao)

• 2007a. “Theoretic Foundation of Generative-Transformation Grammar”. Journal of Foreign Languages 4.6-13.

• 2007b. “Endocentric Construction and Exocentric Construction”. Foreign Language Teaching and Research 39.4.276-284.

• 2007c. “The Interaction between Sentence-final Particles and Temporal Adverbials”. In Shao, Jingmin and Xianliang Zhang eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar III, pp146-155, Haerbin: the Northeast China Normal University Press. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu).

• 2007d. “The Criteria, Method and Result of the Classification of Nouns and Verbs”. Chinese Language Learning. 4.3-12.

• 2007e. “The Semantics and syntax of the interrogative particle va in Shanghai dialect”. Studies of the Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen)         5.431-439.

• 2007f. “The Syntactic Status of Cantonese Sentence-final Particle Sin and Tsyu”. Samuel Cheung, Songhing Cheung and Hungkan Chan eds. Selected Papers of the the 10th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects,347-358. Beijing: The Press of Chinese Social Sciences.    

• 2008a. “The Semantics of Dou and the Information Structure of Sentences with Dou”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 13, 185-195, ed. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen). The Commercial Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Zanhui Huang）

• 2008b. “The Debate on Long vs. Short Bei Constructions”, Journal of the Qinghai Nationalities Institute 34.3.111-117。

• 2008c. “De and De Constructions”, Contemporary Linguistics 10.4.298-307。

• 2009a. “The Debate on Long vs. Short Bei Constructions”, in The Formal and Functional Study of Chinese Grammar, pp147-165, eds. Cheng, Gong and Danqing Liu, The Commercial Press, Beijing (also appears in Journal of the Qinghai Nationalities Institute 34.3.111-117).

• 2009b.   “Indefinite Pronouns and Independent DE Construction”. Foreign Language Teaching and Research 41.2.83-91.

• 2009c. “Analysis of the Ambiguity of ‘Write Slogans on a Train’”, in Studies of Chinese Across the Strait, pp222-234, eds. Xiongxi Li, Xiaolin Tian and Zibin Xu, The Press of Education and Culture, Hong Kong, ISBN 962-8182-40-5.

• 2009d. “Nominal Predicate and the Classification of Words”, Chinese Linguistics 1.29-40．

• 2009e. “Classification and Exploration of ‘N1 + A + D + N2’”, Language Science 8.3.304-316．

• 2009f. “The Syntactic Status of Verbal Object”, Language Science 8.5.493-502.

• 2009g. “Variations in Written Chinese and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”, Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, eds. Weiping Wu and Zhaolin Li, pp53-64. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press.      ISBN978-962-209-170-2.

• 2009h. “Endocentric Construction and Related Concepts”, in Jinming Shao and Xiaoheng Gu eds., New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar IV, pp11-25. Beijing: Peking University Press.

• 2009i. “Ge, No-Ge and the Syntax-Semantics Mismatch”, in Andy Chi, Bit-chee Kwok, Peppina Lee and Benjamin Tsou eds. Multi-disciplinary Approach to Cantonese Studies, pp 407-414, Hong Kong: Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong.

• 2009j. “The Semantic Model of Adjective-Noun Constructions”, Journal of ChineseInformation Science 23.5.9-18, co-authored with Chunli Zhao.

• 2009k. “The Mood and Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese”, Essays on Linguistics 39.445-462, Beijing: The Commercial Press, ISBN978-7-100-06932-8.

• 2009l. “Classifying Chinese Words”, Essays on Linguistics 40.93-110, Beijing: The Commercial Press, ISBN978-7-100-06932-8.

• 2010a. “The Sentence-Final Particle kuai in Shanghai Dialect”, in Lin, Huadong ed. New Exploration in Dialect Grammar, The Xiamen University Press, ISBN 978-7-5615-3473-1.

• 2010b. “On the Adjectives of Appearance Based on Chinese A-N Combinations”, Acta Linguistica et Litteraturaria  Sinica  Occidentalia, 2.36-42.

• 2010c. “Restrictive and Non-restrictive Attributives”,  Foreign Language Teaching and Research 42.323-328.

• 2010d. “The Syntax and Semantics of Saai”, Cantonese Study 6-7.86-92.

• 2010e. “Headless Complex Nominal Phrases and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”, in Qi, Huyang ed.           Study of Chinese Function Words and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, pp574-594，The Fudan University Press, ISBN978-7-309-07034-7。

• 2010f. “Study on the Coined Words in Hong Kong Written Chinese”, in Guo, Fulianged. Theories and Applications of Lexicology, pp255-269, Beijing: The Commercial Press, ISBN 978-7-100-07085-0. (Co-authored with Yi Liu and Yuqi Sheng)

• 2011a. “Some Principles on the Co-Occurrence of Affective Adjectives and Verbal-Constructions”, Chinese Language Learning 1.12-21. (Co-authored with Chunli Zhao)

• 2011b.  “Mood, Modality and Sentence Type”, Foreign Language Teaching and Research 43.4.483-500. (Co-authored with Chunli Zhao)

• 2011c. “Shanghai Final Particle kuale Revisited”, in Gan, Yuen ed. Lingnan Linguistics III, 107-113, Guangzhou: Jinan University Press. (co-authored with Jingmin Shao)

• 2011d. “On the Semantic Features and Limitative Mechanism of Noun in theAdjective-noun Combinations as an Independent Adverbial” Studies in Language and Linguistics 31.3.33-41. (Co-authored with Chunli Zhao)

• 2011e. “On the Wide-scope Interpretation of the Head NP in Dou Relativized Constructions and Some Related Issues.” Contemporary Linguistics 13.4.304-320.        (Co-authored with Zanhui Huang)

• 2011f. “Foreword to New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar”, in Jingmin Shao and Dingxu Shi eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar, pp1-6, Beijing: the Peking University Press.

• 2011g. “A Syntactic and Semantic Study of you-phrase between Subject and Predicate”, Essays on Linguistics 44.106-119, Beijing: The Commercial Press, ISBN978-7-100-08548-9. (co-authored with Chunli Zhao)

• 2011h. “The Origin of Meaning Difference between homographs”, Nankai Linguistics 2.128-139.  (co-authored with Yi Liu and Chuanshu Chen)

• 2012a. “Bare Classifier Phrases in the Yantai Dialect”, Studies of the Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 1.38-49. (co-authored with Tanzhou Liu)        

• 2012b. “Topical Approach and Parsing Framework to the Shi Syntax-Semantics Mismatched Structure in Chinese”, IET (Proceedings of the InternationalConference on Automatic Control and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3, pp 2377-2380.           (co-authored with Weifeng Han)

• 2012c. “The Acquisition of Elliptical Construction in Child Mandarin”, Studies of the Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 3.211-224. (co-authored with Ruya Li and Jianhua Hu)

• 2012d. “Appositive Structures and Possessive Structures: A Case Study of Tamen Zhe Sange Haizi” Studies in Language and Linguistics, 32.4.13-18.（co-authored with Shang Hong）

• 2012e. “Types and Features of the Chinese Comparative Sentences Used in Hong Kong”,  Journal of Yunan Normal University, 6.8-16.         (co-authored with Chunli Zhao)

• 2012f. On Construction of Chinese Compounds, TCSOL Studies 4.76-80.（co-authored with Shuang Hong）        

• 2012g. On the Ambiguity of NP1 + zai  + NP2 + V + NP3，Philology Studies, 4.36-42.（co-authored with Chunlin Zhao）

• 2013a. “Specification for Segmentation and Named Entity Annotation of Chinese Classics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties”, in Donghong Ji and Guozheng Xiao eds. Chinese Lexical Semantics, pp280-293, Berlin: Springer. (co-authored with Dan Xiong, Qin Lu, Fengju Lo, Tin-shing Chiu, Wanyin Li)

• 2013b. “The DP Hypothesis and the Chinese Appositive Constructions”, Chinese Language Learning, 1.35-40 (co-authored with Shuang Hong).

• 2013c. “To Pronounce or Not to Pronounce: Locating Silent Head in Chinese and English”, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 34.55-66. (Co-authored with Roger Liao).

• 2013d. “The Internal Structure of Chinese Nominal Phrases”, in Shen, Yang ed.,Studies of Chinese Grammar at the Frontline,pp256-271, Beijing: the Commercial Press.   

• 2013e. “Lexicalization in Hong Kong Written Chinese: the case ofdaobao”, in Shi, Feng and Peng, Gang eds.,Eastward Flows the Great River—Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on his 80th Birthday, pp 455-467. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press (co-authored with Yi Liu and Chuanshu Chen)   

• 2013f. “Homonyms in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese”, in Shengli Feng ed.,Written Chinese: the Present and the Past, pp 76-87, Beijing: the Peking University Press.   

• 2013g. “The Grammaticalization of Linking Verbs: Process and Trend”,Chinese Language Learning 5.3-12. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)   

• 2013h. “Contemporary Morphology”, in Zhijie Wang and Dongdong Chen eds.,Linguistics, pp119-139. Beijing: the People’s University Press.   

• 2013i. “A Corpus-Based Study on the Categorization and Composition of Personal Names and Terms of Address in Chinese Classical Novels”,International Journal of Knowledge and Language Processing, vol4, no.4, pp.10-20. (co-authored with Xiong Dan, Lu Qin, Lo Fengju, and Chiu Tin-shing)

• 2013j. “Features of the Common Terms in the Chinese Version of Hong Kong Laws”, in Yanbin Diao ed.,New Findings in the Comparative Studies of Contemporary Chinese across the Strait, pp 48-60, the Yuwen Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Jinzhi Su)   

• 2013k. “Topical approach and parsing framework to the syntax-semantics mismatched structure”, Communications in Information Science and Management Engineering, Vol. 3 No. 3:342-346. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)

• 2014a. “The Evolution ofi23kã34(‘he says’) in Shanghainese”,Language and Linguistics15(4) 479–494. (co-authored with Weifeng Han).   

• 2014b. “Syntactic Difference of Youxinxin between Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Chinese”,Chinese Linguistics2.27-36. (co-authored with Chunli Zhao)   

• 2014c. “A Study on the Hong Kong Written Chinese Bi-syllabic Compounds Generated by Phrase Abbreviation”, in Editorial Committee of Theory and Application of Lexicology eds.Theory and Application of Lexicology IIV, pp114-127, ISBN 978-7-100-10616-0, Beijing: The Commercial Press. (Co-authored with Yuqi Sheng and Yi Liu)   

• 2015a. “A comparison study of Jing-constructions in Hong Kong-Macau Chinese and Standard Chinese”,Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Social Science and Philosophy Edition)47(1) 25-33. (co-authored with Chunli Zhao)   

• 2015b. “A Corpus-based Study on Person Names and Advocates in Fictions of the Ming and Qing Era”,Journal of Chinese Information Processing29.1.19-27. (co-authored with Dan Xiong, Qin Lu, Fengchu Luo and Tiancheng Zhao)   

• 2015c. “The Interaction of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics – A Comparison between Chinese Lingwai/qita and English other/another”,Foreign Language Teaching and Research47.2.204-213. (Co-authored with Jing Jin)   

• 2015d. “General Linguistics in Hong Kong”, in Rint Sybesma ed.Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Leiden: Brill.   

• 2015e. “Modern Mandarin Syntax: A Sketch”, in Rint Sybesma ed.Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Leiden: Brill.   

• 2015f. “The Attitude and Semantic Basis for Sentence Final ParticleBei”,Language Teaching and Research4.68-78 (co-authored with Chunli Zhao)   

• 2015g. “Background Proposition and Its Trigger: the case ofgenben”,Foreign Language Teaching and Research5.709-720. (co-authored with Yao Yao)   

• 2016a. “Topic and Left Periphery in Shanghainese”,Journal of Chinese Linguistics1.29-59. (co-authored with Weifeng Han).   

BOOKS  

• 1999.Similarities and Differences: Controversies in Chinese Linguistics.Co-edited with Liejiong Xu, Jenny Wang and Yang Gu, the Press of The Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing.   

• 2001.A Bibliography of Contemporary Chinese linguistics. Co-edited with Liejiong Xu, Jenny Wang and Yang Gu, the Press of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Beijing.   

• 2002.Chomsky’s Formal Syntax – Evolution and the State of the Art. The Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing.   

• 2004.Peking Mandarin.ISBN: 3895868256. Lincom Europa, Muenchen, Germany.   

• 2006a.The Two Faces of Hong Kong Written Chinese. ISBN-13:978-962-672-499-6. Singtao Publishing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.   

• 2006b.Comparison between Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese.ISBN-13:978-988-200-175-6, Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co., Hong Kong, co-authored with Jingmin Shao and Chiyu Chu.   

• 2010.A Classical Guide for Tourist Guides in Hong Kong, ISBN 978-7-5637-1953-62, the Tourism Education Press, Beijing.   

• 2011.Noun and Nominals, ISBN 978-7-301-16277-4, the Peking University Press, Beijing.   

NONREFEREED PUBLICATIONS: (Conference Proceedings and Other Journals)  

• 1989. “Definiteness Effect and the Hierarchy of NP Positions”.ESCOL'89.240‑251.   

• 1990. “Is There Object to Subject Raising in Chinese?”BLS16.305‑314).   

• 1990. “Theta‑Grid, Case‑Assignment and The Phrase Structure Condition Of Chinese”.WECOL20.211‑221.   

• 1992. “The Specificity Requirement and the Structure of Predication”.WECOL22   

• 201‑211.

• 1993. “Discourse Topic Continuity and Syntactic Reduction”.BLS19. 313‑322.   

• 1994. “The Structure and Properties of Potential Resultative Compounds”.NACCL6.159-170.   

• 1995. “Chinese as a Null Subject Language”.ICCL4/NACCL7. 271-288   

• 1996. “On Verb Reduplication”.NACCL 8. 277-294.   

• 1998a. “Cantonese, Standard Chinese and Writing”. In Lee, HoK-ming ed.Studies on Writing-Teaching in Colleges358-364. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University   

• 1998b. “The Nature of Chinese Comparative Constructions”.NACCL10 221-238.   

• 1999. “Linguistic Theories and Language Teaching”. In Lee, Hok-ming ed.Teaching in Chinese and Bilingual Studies,CBS, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 100-109.   

• 2001. “On Contrastive Analysis”.Philology Newsletterpp.67-70.   

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:    

• 1989a. “The Largest Syntactic Unit in Chinese”. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Linguistics of the International Linguistic Association, New York.

• 1989b. “Definiteness Effect and the Hierarchy Of NP Positions”. Paper presented at the 6th Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Newark, Delaware.

• 1989c. “A Unique Way of Pidgin Transmission and its Possible Influence on Chinese Pidgin English”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Washington, D.C..

• 1990a. “Is There Object to Subject Raising in Chinese?” Paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistic Society Conference, Berkeley.

• 1990b. “Theta‑Grid, Case‑Assignment and the Phrase Structure Condition of Chinese”. Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, El Paso.

• 1990c. “Matrix VP or Adverbial?” Paper presented at the Second Northeast Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Philadelphia.

• 1991a. “Pidian, Pigeon and Business”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Chicago.

• 1991b. “Topic or Adverbial”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.

• 1991c. “With or Without DE”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Chinese Language Teachers Association, Washington, D.C.

• 1992a. “How Much Phonology Is Available?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Philadelphia.

• 1992b. “On Chinese Clefts”. Paper presented at the Workshop on East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine.

• 1992c. “On the Feeding Relation Between Syntax and Morphology: Evidence from Chinese Nominal V‑N Compounds”. Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

• 1992d. “The Specificity Requirement and the Structure of Predication”. Paper presented at 22nd West Coast Conference on Linguistics, Tucson.

• 1993a. “Discourse Topic Continuity and Syntactic Reduction”. Paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistics Society conference, Berkeley.

• 1993b. “The Structural Representation of Resultative Construction and the Definiteness Effect”. Paper presented at the 5th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Newark, Delaware.

• 1993c. “Teaching Chinese Language, Teaching Chinese Culture”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, San Antonio.

• 1994a. “The Structure and Properties of Potential Resultative Compounds”. Paper presented at the 6th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Los Angeles.

• 1994b. “Complex Predicates in Chinese Are Very Complex”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 1995a. “Chinese as a Null Subject Language”. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Madison.

• 1995b. “NP Predicates in Chinese”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 1996a. “On Verb Reduplication”. Paper presented at the 8th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

• 1996b. “On Nominal Predicates”. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Hsin-chu, Taiwan.

• 1996c. “The Definiteness Requirement on Chinese Subjects”. Paper presented at the Symposium on Referentiality of Chinese Noun Phrases, Hong Kong.

• 1996d. “On NP+Q Questions”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 1997a. “The Interrogative Form of NP+Q”. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference of Chinese Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands.

• 1997b. “The Referentiality of Headless Complex NPs”. Paper presented at the Workshop on Referentiality of NPs, LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ithaca, NY.

• 1997c. “The Extractability of Adjuncts in Relativization”. Paper presented the Workshop on Referentiality of NPs, LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ithaca, NY, co-author with C. Yu and Y. Jiang.

• 1997d. “To Mark Topic and Subject in Chinese Sentences”. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Society of Computational Linguistics '97, Beijing, co-authored with X. Chen.

• 1997e.”Chinese Inter-Dialect Machine Translation”, Paper presented at the Joint Society of Computational Linguistics '97, Beijing, co-authored with X. Zhang.

• 1997f. “The Chinese Comparative Constructions”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 1997g. “The Unmarked Relative Clauses in Cantonese”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 1997h. “The Yue Dialect and Modern Standard Chinese.” Paper presented at the Conference on Teaching Writing in Universities, Hong Kong.

• 1998a. “The Nature of Comparative Constructions in Chinese”. Paper presented at the Tenth North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Stanford.

• 1998b. “The Internal Structure of Chinese Resultative Constructions”. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Moscow.

• 1998c. “Syntax, Semantic, Discourse and Pragmatics, the Case of Chinese Complex NP”. Paper presented at the 98 International Conference on Chinese Grammar, Beijing.

• 1998d. “The Flexibility of Chinese and Chinese Syntax Theory”. Paper presented at the Seventh Linguistics Abroad Conference, Luoyang, Henan

• 1998e. “Verbal Modification of Nominals”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 1999a. “Phrase or Word: the Case of Nominal Modifiers”. Paper presented at the Eighth International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference, Melbourne.

• 1999b. “Object-Taking Adjectives in Cantonese”. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong.

• 1999c. “The Basic Unit in Machine Recognition of Chinese”. Paper presented at the at the Joint Conference of the Society of Computational Linguistics '99, Beijing.

• 1999d. “The Issue of Impersonal Passive”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, co-authored with Tang, Sze-wing.

• 1999e. “Semantic Shift in Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Hong Kong, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.

• 1999f. “The Influence of English-Chinese Translation on Hong Kong Written Chinese: the case of ‘chance’”. Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Hong Kong, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.

• 1999g. “Syntactic Variations in Hong Kong Written Chinese: the English influence”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese and Cultures, Shanghai, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.

• 2000a. “Dialectal Factors in Putonghua Test”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language Testing and Language Teaching, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

• 2000b. “The Nature of Background Topic”. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Topic and Focus in Chinese, Hong Kong.

• 2000c. “The Markedness of Preverbal Patient NPs”. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Singapore. (Co-authored with Tang, Sze-wing)

• 2000d. “The Syntactic Status of Compounds and Phrases”. Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Wuhu.

• 2000e. “Subject, Patient Subject and the Theory of Syntax”. Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Linguistics Abroad, Guangzhou.

• 2000f. “Conditions on Reduction at Discourse Level”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 2001a. “The Interface of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics: the case of Chinese nominal predicates”. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium, Hong Kong.

• 2001b. “The Syntactic Status of the Chinese Attributive Marker DE”. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Formal Linguistics (China), Changsha.

• 2001c. “Cantonese Influences on Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Hong Kong, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.

• 2002a. “Nominalization of Verbs and Verb Phrases”. Paper presented the 12th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Changsha.

• 2002b. “The Syntax of Word Formation”. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Changsha.

• 2002c. “Syntactic Changes Induced by Language Contact: the Case of Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Nagoya, Japan.

• 2002d. “Grammaticalization of Verbs – the Case of Come and Go”. Paper presented at the 9th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Beijing.

• 2002e. “Constituent Order in Syntactic Islands”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 2002f. “The Basis for Dialogue among Linguists”. Paper presented at the Yuelu Forum on Contemporary Linguistics, Changsha.

• 2003a. “The Interaction Domain of Pragmatics, Semantics and Syntax: the issue of patient NP in subordinate clauses”. Keynote speech at the Second International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Guangzhou.

• 2003b. “Two Types of Passive Constructions in Chinese and the Status of Bei”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese Passives, Wuchang.

• 2003c. “The Syntax and Semantics of the Sentence Final le”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Hong Kong.

• 2003d. “Deriving Passives in Chinese”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Hong Kong.

• 2003e. “The Syntactic Properties of Degree Adverbs in Cantonese: the Case of Postponed Adverbial”. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Macau.

• 2004a. “Interaction of Syntax, Pragmatics and Phonology: the case of Chinese V-N compounds”. Keynote speech at the Conference on Language Interface, Shanghai .

• 2004b. “Interface in Binding”. Paper presented at the Conference on Language Interface, Shanghai , co-authored with Jiahua Hu.

• 2004c. “Factors in the Acceptability of V-N Compounds”. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Tianjin, China.

• 2004d. “Referential Features of Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, co-authored with Dongmei Wang, Tianjin, China.

• 2004e. “The Referring and Predication of Verbs”. Keynote Speech presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of China, Yinchuan, China.

• 2004f. “Completion of Sentences and Licence of Referential Features”. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of China, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Yinchuan, China.

• 2004g. “Aspect Markers in Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, co-authored the Chu Chi-yu, Shenzhen.

• 2004h. “Unusual Collocations in Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, co-authored the Chu Chi-yu, Shenzhen.

• 2004i. “Homographs in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese”. Paper presented at the 4th National Conference on Sociolinguistics, Beijing.

• 2004j. “The Syntactic and Semantic Status of Le2”. Keynote Speech at the 13th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Fuzhou.

• 2004k. “The Quantification of Le and Guo”. Paper presented at the 13th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Fuzhou.

• 2004l. “The Licensing of Chinese Clauses and Nominal Phrases”Paper presented the 10th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Chongqing.

• 2004m. “The Compression of Chinese Complex Words”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2004n. “Presupposition and Assertion -- The Semantics of -guo”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Hong Kong.

• 2005a. “Sentence-Final ParticleLeand Temporal Adverbs”. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu.   

• 2005b. “Resultative Construction and the Scope of the Aspect MarkerGuo”. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu.   

• 2005c. “Presupposition and Assertion in the Use of -Guo”. Paper presented at the 17th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, co-authored with Jianhu Hu, Monterey, USA.

• 2005d. “The Syntactic and Semantic Status of Postverbal Numeral phrases”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Verb and Object. Wuchang.

• 2005e. “A Unique Noun-Verb Construction”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2005f. “The Syntactic Status of Sentence-final Particles in Cantonese”. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong.

• 2005g. “Hong Kong Written Chinese and Language Variation”. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong. (Co-authored with Shao Jingmin)

• 2006a. “Nominal Predicates and Word Classes”. Paper presented at the Nanyue Forum on Chinese Grammar, Shaoguan, China.

• 2006b. “Long Passives and Short Passives in Chinese”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Formal and Functional Approaches to Chinese Grammar, Zhengzhou, China.

• 2006c. “The Current Status and Prospectus of Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the International Conference on the Language Policy in Chinese, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, Hong Kong.

• 2006d. “The AdverbsDouandYein Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, Shenzhen, co-authored with Dongmei Wang.   

• 2006e. “The Chinese Language Teaching Courseware: Practice and Theoretic Implications”. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on New Technology in Teaching and Learning Chinese, Hong Kong, co-authored with Xiaoheng Zhang and Yuqi Sheng.

• 2006f. “The Criteria, Method and Consequence of the Distinction between Noun and Verb”. Paper presented the 11th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Tianjin.

• 2006g. “Deand theDeConstruction”. Keynote Speech at the 14th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Shanghai.   

• 2006h. “The Logic Function ofDouand Its Information and Syntactic Structure”. Paper presented at the 14th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co- authored with Zanhui Huang, Shanghai.   

• 2006i. “The Syntax and Semantics of Sentence-Final Particle VA in Shanghai Dialect”. Keynote speech at the 3rd International Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects, Guangzhou.

• 2006j. “The De Construction and the Endocentric Construction”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 2007a. “Variations of Written Chinese and Its Implications in CSL”. Plenary paper presented at the Professional Workshop on Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Hong Kong.

• 2007b. “The Syntax and Semantics of Sentence-final Particles--the case of Shanghai Dialect Va”. Paper presented at the 15th International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference, New York.

• 2007c. “Constraints on the Occurrence ofDou”. Paper presented at the 15th International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference, New York (co-authored with Zanhui Huang).   

• 2007d. “Endocentric Construction and Related Concepts”. Keynote speech at the fourth International Conference on Chinese Grammar, Xining.

• 2007e. “Nominal Predicate and the Classification of Words”. Paper presented at the Symposium on Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Hong Kong.

• 2007f. “The logic-semantic function of Dou and the information structure of Dou construction”. Paper presented at the Symposium on Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Hong Kong (co-authored with Zanhui Huang).

• 2007g. “Syntactic Ambiguity of Pragmatic Ambiguity”. Paper presented at the Roundtable Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Qingdao.

• 2007h. “Indefinite Pronoun and Headless Relatives”. Keynote speech at the International Conference on Comparative Grammar, Wuchang.

• 2007i. “The Ambiguity of ‘Write Slogans on a Train’”. Paper presented at the 3rd Cross the Strait Conference on Chinese Grammar, Hong Kong.

• 2007j. “The Interaction between Syntax, Phonology and Pragmatics: the case of ambiguity in negative compound sentences”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2007k. “The Syntax and Semantics of Saai”. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Zhongshan.

• 2008a. “A Comparison of Homographs in Standard Chinese and Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the Association of Chinese Sociolinguistics, Hong Kong. (co-authored with Yi Liu)

• 2008b. “Independent DE Construction and its Implications in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”. Keynote speech at the 3rd National Conference on Functional Words and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Huzhou.

• 2008c. “Chinese Headless Relative Clauses Do Have Head”, paper presented at the 16th Polylinguistics Salon, Hong Kong.

• 2008d. “Sentence-final Particles and the Structure of CP”, paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing.

• 2008e. “Quantified Event andMei”, paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing. (co-authored with Zanhui Huang)   

• 2008f. “Classification of Adjectival Modifiers”, paper presented at the Nanjing University Sociolinguistics Lab Conference, Nanjing.

• 2008g. “The Wide-scope Reading of the Head in a Relative Clause with Dou and Related Issues”. Paper presented at the 15th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Zanhui Huang, Yanji.

• 2008h. “The Syntax of Verbal Objects”. Keynote Speech at the 14th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Yanji.

• 2008i. “Restrictive and Descriptive Attributives in Chinese”. Paper presented the 12th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Wuchang.

• 2008j. “Language Change Induced by Translation - How Legal Translation Influenced Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 2nd HCLS Conference, Translation, Language Contact and Multilingual Communication, Hong Kong.

• 2008k. “The Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Attributives”. Paper presented at the 2nd Nanyue Forum on Chinese Grammar, Zhaoqing, China.

• 2008l.“Sentence-final kuai in Shanghai Dialect”. Keynote paper of the 3rd International Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects, Quanzhou.

• 2008m. “Mood in Chinese”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2008n. “With or Without Gei”. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong.

• 2009a. “The Chinese Word Classes and their Role in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”. Plenary paper presented at the Second Professional Workshop on Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Hong Kong.

• 2009b. “The Cartography of Chinese CP”, paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Beijing.

• 2009c.“Restrictive, Non-restrictive and Descriptive Attributives”, paper presented at The Second Conference on the Syntax and Semantics of Contemporary Chinese, Hsinchu,

• 2009d. “Mood, Modality and Sentence Type” , paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Chinese Grammar with Sentence Function as the Focus, Wuchang, co-authored with Chunli Zhao.

• 2009e. “The Syntactic Status of Attributive-Only Adjectives”. Paper presented at the Third Roundtable of Contemporary Linguistics, Shanghai.

• 2009f. “The Structure of Chinese Compounds: the Case of V-N Compound”, keynote speech at the International Conference on Chinese Word-Formation, Paris.

• 2009g. “Issues of the Classification of Chinese Words”, plenary speech at the Fifth International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Hong Kong.

• 2009h. “Part of Speech for Non-predicative adjectives”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• 2010a. . “The Syntax and Semantics of ‘You+NP/VP’ between Subject and Predicate”, paper presented at the 16th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Hong Kong (co-authored with Chunli Zhao).

• 2010b. “Syntactic Function and the Classification of Content Words – The Case of Attributive-Only and Adverbial-Only Adjectives”, keynote speech at the 16th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Hong Kong .

• 2010c. “The Internal Structure of Nominal Phrases”, paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese Grammar, the Way to the Frontier of Contemporary Science, Beijing.

• 2010d. “The Internal Structure of Chinese DP”, plenary speech at the 13th China’s International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Shanghai.

• 2010e. “The Possessive Construction in Chinese”. Paper presented at the 3rd Nanyue Forum on Chinese Grammar, Macau.

• 2010f. “What Marks the Definiteness in a Chinese Nominal Phrase?” Paper presented at the Workshop on Definiteness in Chinese, Hong Kong.

• 2010g. “The Meaning Encoded in the Structure of Chinese DP”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 2011a. “Affix in Chinese: the case offei- and -hua”. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Latest Development in Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong.   

• 2011b. “Homographs in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Written Chinese”, paper presented at the Symposium on The History and Current State of Written Chinese, Hong Kong.

• 2011c. “Attributive Marker and Possessive Marker in Shanghai Dialect”, paper presented at the Symposium on the Attributive Particle in Chinese Dialects, Hong Kong.

• 2011d. “The Internal Modification of Chinese Nominal Phrases”, paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Tianjin.
   

• 2011e. “The Possessive Nominal Phrases in Chinese”, paper presented at the 3rd Symposium on Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Beijing.

• 2011f. “Acquisition of Elliptical Constructions in Child Mandarin”, paper Posted at The 12th Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada, 19-23 July

• 2011. (co- authored with Ruya Li and Jianhua Hu).

• 2011g. “Saying the unsaid: Two presupposition triggers in Chinese”, paper presented at the International Joint Symposium on the Interface of Grammar, Beijing. (co-authored with Yao Yao).

• 2011h. “Children’s Interpretation of Pronouns and Reflexives in VP Ellipsis Structures”, paper presented at the International Joint Symposium on the Interface of Grammar, Beijing. (co-authored with Ruya Li and Jianhua Hu.

• 2011i. “Grammar Studies and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language”, keynote speech at the

• 2011 International Conference on the Materials for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Different Countries, Guilin.

• 2011j. “Adverbials and the Unstated Presupposition”, paper presented at the International Conference on Adverbs, Guilin.

• 2011k. “The Emergence of New Words in Hong Kong Written Chinese”, paper presented at the Sixth Cross-Strait Conference on Contemporary Chinese, Macau. (co-authored with Yi Liu and Yuqi Sheng)

• 2011l. “Presupposition and Its Trigger”, paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

• 2011m. “The Structure and Function of Numeral-Classifier Phrase”, paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Guangzhou.

• 2011n. Children’s interpretation of elliptical structures with pronouns. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (co-authored with Ruya Li and Jianhua Hu).

• 2012a. The acquisition of pronouns and reflexives in elliptical structures. Paper presented at the 7th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-7). Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan,

• 2012b. “Research on Grammar and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: the Case of Evaluative Adverbs”，paper presented at the International Symposium on Chinese Linguistics and Chinese Language Teaching. Honolulu.

• 2012c. “The Structure of Numeral-Classifier Phrase”, paper presented at the 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, San Francisco.

• 2012d. “The Structure of Numeral Phrase in Chinese”, keynote speech at the Forum on Noun and Nominal Phrases for PhD Students, Beijing.

• 2012e. “The Internal Constituent Order of Verbal Attributives and its Theoretic Implications”, paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese Word Order, Wuhan.

• 2012f. “Split CP and Sentence Final Particles”, paper presented at the International Conference on Innovation of Linguistic Science, Xuzhou.

• 2012g. “The Grammaticalization of ‘he says’ in Shanghainese”, paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)

• 2012h. “Syntactic position and function of ‘hika’ in Shanghainese”, paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of Chinese Linguistic Society, Yunnan. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)

• 2012i. “A Statistical Approach to the Contextual Effect on the Comprehension of Metaphorical Uses of Polysemous Words”, paper presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Education Technology (EI Compendex), Shanghai. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)

• 2013a. “Synonyms and Dictionary Compiling”, paper presented at the 7th Conference on Issues of Contemporary Chinese, Hong Kong.

• 2013b. “Inspirations from Contemporary Theoretic Syntax: the case of split CP hypothesis”, paper presented at the 4th National Forum on Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Guangzhou.

• 2013c. “Mass Nouns, Countable Nouns, Massifiers and Classifiers”, paper presented at the 21th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Taipei.

• 2013d. “The Grammaticalization of Modal Particles in Shanghainese”, paper presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)

• 2013e. “Non-referential pronoun and sentence force in Shanghainese”, paper presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Taipei. (co-authored with Weifeng Han)
   

• 2013f. “The Evolution of Sentence Final Particles”, paper presented at the Conference on the Present and the Past of Sentence Final Particles, Hong Kong.

• 2013g. “The Referentiality of Chinese Nominals”, paper presented at the Second Forum on Syntax and Semantics, Kunshan.

• 2013h. “Countable and Mass Nouns in Chinese”, paper presented at the Fifth International Roundtable on Contemporary Linguistics, Nanjing.

• 2013i. “The Syntactic Status of D in Chinese”, paper presented at the Fourth Symposium on the Syntax and Semantics of Contemporary Chinese,

• 2014a. “Genbenand Background Propositions”, paper presented at the Fifth Nanyue Forum, Hong Kong.   

• 2014b. “V-O Compounds in Chinese”, paper presented at the Forum on Word Formation in Chinese, Hong Kong.

• 2015a. “A Corpus Based Study on the Reversed Bisyllabic Words”，paper presented at CSLW

• 2015, Beijing.（Co-authored with Dan Xiong, Qin Lu and Fungchu Luo）

• 2015b. “A New Categorization Framework for Chinese Adverbs”, paper presented CSLW

• 2015, Beijing.（Co-authored with Hongzhi Xu and Churen Huang）

• 2015c. “Linguistics’ Contribution to Chinese Education – A Reference Grammar of Chinese”, paper presented at The First International Forum on Linguistics in Chinese Education, Davis.

• 2015d. “Syntactic Analyses Based on Large Corpora”, paper presented at the Fifth Forum by Overseas Chinese Linguists, Xuzhou.

• 2015e. “Propositional Negation and the Meaning Reversion - the contrast betweenjiuandcaiand meaning reversion”, paper presented at IACL23, Los Angeles. (co-authored with Yang Shen)   

• 2015f. “Studies on Synonyms and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language”, plenary speech at the Second International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Guangzhou.

• 2015g. “Subjective Adverbs and Objective Adverbs”, keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the Guangdong Society of Chinese Linguistics, Guangzhou.

• 2015h. “Frequency Adverbs and Probability Adverbs”, paper presented at the Fifth Conference on Contemporary Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Beijing.