Papers
In progress
- Higher-order readings of wh-questions. (Paper)
Submitted. [Updated in Jan 2020] - Quantifying-into functional dependency: Questions with quantifiers and multi-wh questions. (Paper)
Drafted. [Updated in March 2020]. - A variable-free approach to wh-dependency. (Slides)
In prep.
Peer-reviewed articles
- 2020. A hybrid categorial approach to question composition
Linguistics and Philosophy. DOI: 10.1007/s10988-020-09294-8 - 2020. Function alternations of the Mandarin particle dou: Distributor, free choice licensor, and ‘even’. Journal of Semantics. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffz018
- 2017. ONLY: An NPI-licenser and NPI-unlicenser
Journal of Semantics 34(3): 447-481. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffx006 - 2016. Mandarin particle dou: A pre-exhaustification exhaustifier
Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 11. [Updated in 2020 JoS]
Dissertation
- 2016. Interpreting Questions with Non-exhaustive Answers.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University.
Conference proceedings
- 2019. Two types of higher-order readings of wh-questions.
In Julian J. Schlöder, Dean McHugh & Floris Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 22: 417-426. Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC), University van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. (Presentation video; updated in Submitted)
- 2019. Getting quantifying-into questions uniformly: Functionality, domain exhaustivity, and quantificational variability
Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 29. - 2017. Mention-some readings of plural-marked questions: Experimental evidence. (Paper)
Xiang, Yimei and Alexandre Cremers. Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society 47. - 2016. Solving the dilemma between uniqueness and mention-some. (Paper)
Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society 46. - 2016. Complete and true: A uniform analysis for mention-some and mention-all questions. (Paper)
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20. - Mention-some readings of questions: Complexities from number-marking.
Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 20. (Paper) - 2015. A Grammatical view of exhaustification with focus movement: Evidence from NPI-Licensing.
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19. (Paper) [Updated in JoS 2017] - 2013. Neg-raising: Focus and implicatures. (Paper)
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18. - 2013. Neg-raising and aspect: Evidence from Mandarin.
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 19. [Bad paper. Don’t read/cite.]