My main research interests are formal syntax, syntax-semantics interface, syntax-information structure interface, and comparative syntax of East Asian languages and minority languages spoken in China. I have worked on a number of specialized areas, including:

• Topic and focus structures in Mandarin and Cantonese, and their implications for the syntax-information structure interface (in collaboration with Prof. Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai)
• The syntax and semantics of psychological predicates and ‘make’ causatives in Mandarin and English (in collaboration with Prof. Richard K. Larson)
• The syntax of de, linkers, and Ezafe particles (in collaboration with Prof. Richard K. Larson)
• The syntax and semantics of bare conditionals in Mandarin and correlatives in Indo-Aryan languages
• Attributive adjectival modification in Mandarin
• Noun phrase structure of Jingpo

• Linguistic Society of America
• Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
  
• International Association of Chinese Linguistics

• Academia