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Chenghao Hu presented the paper “Chinese Nominal Structure: on Plural Marker and Pronouns” at The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34) held at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid, Spain, from May 7 to 9, 2025.

On April 8, 2025, Professor Klaus Abels (University College London) gave a talk titled “Scope, Quantifier Raising, and the Typology of Ditransitive VPs” for the research seminar at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Xiangyu Li presented his poster “Revisit and derive Verb-Copying Constructions in Chinese uniformly by Form-Copy” at The Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 14 (TEAL-14) held at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, from 2025 March 19 to 21.

Three team members successfully passed their PhD Topic Proposals! Chenghao Hu, Nominal Licensing and Its Mechanisms in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond; Xiangyu Li Copy Identification Mechanism at Narrow Syntax: from Strong Minimalist Thesis to Form-Copy; Zhongyang Yu, Head Movement and Cliticization: A Syntactic Approach.

Zhongyang Yu presented the poster “Deriving Sogdian pronominal cliticization” at The 50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa held at University of Padova in Italy from 2025 February 20 to 21.

On February 4, 2025, Professor Mamoru Saito (Notre Dame Seishin University) gave a talk titled “Discourse particles and selection: Implications for the model of syntax” for the research seminar at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He presented a new perspective on explaining the hierarchy of sentence-final particles, i.e. through their selectional properties and speech acts rather than fixed cartographical structure. He adopts a multi-dimensional derivation model initially proposed in Pan and Du (2024).

The article of Prof. Victor Junnan PAN and Ph.D candidate Yuqiao DU, in title of “The latest development of MERGE defined based on Workspace (工作空间定义下合并的最新发展)” is published on Contemporary Linguistics (当代语言学) (Volume 26, Number 6).