Papers and Presentations

Papers and Manuscripts

👉 The semantics and pragmatics of Mandarin Chinese perfective particles (In progress)

👉 Decomposing perfect readings (2022)

Languages special issue: Tense and aspects across languages

👉 The English past tense as a definite description (accepted)

Glossa special collection: Definiteness and referentiality

👉 Deriving the variation and constraints of the present perfect (2019)

Proceedings of ConSOLE XXVII


Presentations and Talks

2022

👉 Invited talk: Event anaphora and discourse relations in Mandarin Chinese

Workshop "Looking for Non-Future Tense", University of Nantes

2019

👉 Presuppositional aspects in Mandarin Chinese

LAGB Annual Meeting, Queen Mary University, London

👉 Chinese aspects in discourse

Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, Edinburgh

👉 Chinese aspects in discourse

London Semantics Symposium

👉 Temporal Definiteness

Sorting Out the Concepts Behind Definiteness, DGfS Workshop, Bremen

👉 Crosslinguistic Variation of (In)definite Pasts

20th Szklarska Poręba Workshop

👉 Explaining the Variation and Constraints of the Present Perfect

ConSOLE 2019, Humboldt University


2018

👉 The Crosslinguistic Variation of the Present Perfect

Going Romance, GREAT Workshop, Utrecht

👉 Towards A Unified Analysis of the Present Perfect

BCGL 11: The Syntax and Semantics of Aspect

👉 Definiteness in the Temporal Domain

RALFe 2018 - Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle

👉 Solving the Present Perfect Puzzles

Rtanj Linguistics 2

👉 A Dynamic Analysis of the Present Perfect

London Semantics Day


Reading Group Presentations

2018

👉 'Definiteness and indefiniteness' in Blackwell Handbook of Pragmatics (Abbott 2004)

UCL definiteness reading group

👉 'Definiteness' in Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Heim 2011)

UCL definiteness reading group

👉 'Past time reference in a language with optional tense' (Bochnak 2016)

UCL semantics seminar

2017

👉 'Perfect and Progressive' (Portner 2011)

UCL aspect reading group

👉 'Events and Plurality' (Landman 2000)

UCL aspect reading group

👉 Davidsonian and Neo-Davidsonian event semantics

UCL aspect reading group





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