Xiangyu presented the paper “Distribution of nominal modifiers in classifier languages: a labeling approach”, collaborated with Prof Victor Pan, at International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-2025), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, November 8-9.
Prof Victor Pan delivered his invited talk entitled “Free-MERGE Across Multi-Dimensions: Derivation and Application” at International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-2025), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, November 8-9.
Jin Yan presented the paper “Polar questions with interrogative adverbs in Chinese”, collaborated with Prof Victor Pan, at International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-2025), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, November 8-9.
Zetao presented the paper “Number agreement in heritage Chinese in Europe”, collaborated with Prof Roberta D’Alessandro and Prof Victor Pan, at Heritage Language Syntax 6, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye, November 6-7.
Prof Victor Pan delivered his invited talk collaborated with Zetao Xu ‘現代漢語疑問詞的句法層級再探’ at International Roundtable on Comparative Syntax 比較句法國際圓桌論壇, NTHU, October 18-19, 2025.
Prof Victor Pan delivered his Keynote speech ‘以極簡的自由合併框架觀語言之複雜表象’(Deriving “complicated” language phenomena under the “simplest” free MERGE framework), at 第七屆“走向新描寫主義”國際研討會, Macau University of Science and Technology, September 20-21.
Zetao presented the paper ‘漢語繼承語的數量一致性’ at 第三屆京滬港澳高校中文學科研究生論壇, Fudan University, Shanghai, September 20-21.
Zetao presented the paper “Grammaticalization of demonstratives and the nominal structure in nDrapa”, collaborated with Prof Victor Pan, at The 58th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-58), University of Bern, Switzerland, September 3-5.
Team members, Jin Yan and Xiangyu Li, are doing data collection in Jiangsu and Fujian provinces.
Jin Yan and Prof Victor Pan co-presented the paper “Polar question in Yunnan Mandarin: interaction with adverbs and derivation”, at the 27th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG27), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, August 14-16.