Chenghao Hu and Prof Victor Pan published "On the plural marker 'men' in Chinese" in Catalan Journal of Linguistics!

The article, co-authored by Ph.D candidate Chenghao Hu (First author) and Prof Victor Pan, “On the plural marker ‘men’ in Chinese”, has been published in Catalan Journal of Linguistics (ESCI) (Open Access)

Abstract This paper tackles the syntactic properties of the plural marker men in Mandarin Chinese. We argue that men is a modifier (non-inflectional plural marker in the sense of Wiltschko 2008) adjoined to the n head, where men is interpreted as an additive plural marker. We propose that men will move in the two contexts: First, when attaching to common nouns, men agrees with the D head, giving rise to definite construals, and men undergoes an n-to-D movement if D hosts a pronoun. Second, when attaching to proper names, men moves along with the proper name in a pied-piping manner. In both cases, men ends up adjoining D, where men is interpreted associatively. Additionally, we discuss cases in which proper names and pronouns co-occur and the role of men in the derivation, using an Agree and labeling approach. Keywords: plural marker, pronoun, n-to-D movement, Agree, Chinese