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Tingting Weng and Jiaying Huang co-presented their paper ‘Number mismatch in the Universal Quantification? On the “One-Cl-N dou V- saːi" in the Guangzhou Yue dialect’ at the 31st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-31) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, July 2-4.

Team members, Zetao Xu (group leader), Chenghao Hu, Xiangyu Li and Zhongyang Yu, are doing data collection of nDrapa language in the West of Sichuan. The documentation and projection of this endangered language is very urgent! Our team works closely with native speakers of nDrapa and Prof Yang Huang from Southwest Jiaotong University, who is an expert of this langauge.

Chenghao and Prof Victor Pan co-presented their paper “A base-generation approach to sentence-initial root modal auxiliaries in Chinese” at Workshop on The Syntax and Semantics of Auxiliaries, Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage (UMR 7023), CNRS & Université Paris 8, Paris, France, June 23-24.

Jin Yan presented the paper “閩語閩東方言左緣結構中的句末助詞層級劃分” at 第十一屆方言語法博學論壇 (The 11th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar) at Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou from June 21 to 22.

Zetao and Prof Victor Pan co-presented their paper “Interaction of UG and the 3rd principles in resumptive pronouns: evidence from heritage Chinese in the Netherlands and France” at The workshop on Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages, INALCO, Paris, France, June 6.

Zetao Xu presented the paper “The dynamics of resumptive pronouns: Change and stability in Heritage Chinese in the Netherlands” at Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2025 in conjunction with Conference on Innovation in L2 Chinese Acquisition Research, Shanghai Jiaotong University, May 30-June 1.

Team members, Zetao Xu, Chenghao Hu, Xiangyu Li, Zhongyang Yu presented their latest research works in a mini-workshop with Professor Shigeru Miyagawa.

Professor Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) gives three lectures at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the Wilson T. S. Wang-New Method College Visiting Professorship in Language Education. 1. May 20: What is Human Language Designed for? 2. May 21: Baby Sounds, Boléro, and Other Gifts of Evolution. 3. May 26: Pro-drop, E-type Pronouns, and Agreement With Reference to the Null Subject in Chinese and Japanese