Invited/non-refereed talks

Xuetong Yuan & Ka-Fai Yip. (2024). Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in imperatives. Talk at Yale SRG, April, 2024. [handout]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. (2024). Defocus Rephrasing: right dislocation and syntax-prosody mapping. Talk at Stony Brook University Linguistics’ Brown Bag talk series, April, 2024. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. (2024). Conditionality without if : Mandarin conditionals and jiu. Talk at SURGE reading group, Rutgers University, March, 2024. [handout]

Xuetong Yuan & Ka-Fai Yip. (2024). Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in imperatives. Talk at CUHK-UChicago Forum on Comparative Linguistics. CUHK, Hong Kong, March, 2024. [handout]

Peer-reviewed conference presentations

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. (2024). Teasing apart the prosodic effects of focus and of defocus: syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocation. Poster at LabPhon 19, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, June, 2024. [poster]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. (2024). Right dislocation, defocus, and variations in syntax- prosody mapping. Talk at phex 15, Tokyo, Japan, February, 2024 [virtual]. [slides]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. (2024). Agreement in imperative clauses: evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. Poster at NELS 54, MIT, January, 2024. [handout]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. (2023). Jussive agreement with non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. Talk at BCGL 16, CRISSP, October, 2023. [slides]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. (2023). Defocus leads to syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocated structures. Talk at CLS 59, University of Chicago, April, 2023. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Updating unexpected moves. Talk at SuB 27, Charles University, Czech Republic, September, 2022. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Establishing discourse relations: two contrastive markers in Mandarin. Poster at GLOW 45, Queen Mary University of London, April, 2022. [slides]

Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Additive Prejecent and/or Additive Alternatives: A Principle and a Parameter in Mandarin and Japanese. Poster at GLOW 45 Workshop I: Typological generalizations and semantic theory, Queen Mary University of London, April, 2022. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Establishing discourse relations: two contrastive markers in Mandarin. Talk at CLS 58, University of Chicago, April, 2022.

Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Two contrastive markers in Mandarin. Talk at TLLM 2022, Tsinghua University, Beijing [virtual].

Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Stronger Additivity Derives Concessivity. Talk at PLC 46, University of Pennsylvania [virtual].

Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. (2022). Stronger additivity: Toward a unification of additivity and concessivity. Talk at Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) Semantics Conference, Keio University, Japan, March, 2022 [virtual]. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. (2020). Extracting commitment: the case of Mandarin rising ba-declaratives. Talk at SuB 25, Queen Mary University of London [virtual].

Xuetong Yuan and Hiroaki Saito. (2020). On matrix shuo in Mandarin. Talk at NACCL 32, UConn, Storrs, CT [virtual]. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. (2019). A discourse model for Mandarin ba-interrogatives. Talk at SuB 24, Osnabrück, Germany, September, 2019. [slides].

Xuetong Yuan. (2019). A discourse model for Mandarin ba-interrogatives. Poster at GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG XXI, Seoul, Korea.