Research interests

Syntax and semantics, language documentation, Sinitic languages, language typology.

Publications

• 2021. A grammar of Shaowu, a Sinitic language of north-western Fujian, in the grammar series Sinitic Languages of China, ed. by Hilary Chappell, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• 2016. 'Shaowu: a hybrid dialect in Southeast China', Encyclopaedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Zev Handel et al (eds.), Brill.
• 2015. 'Giving is receiving: The polysemy of the GET/GIVE verb [tie53] in Shaowu, in Causation, Permission, and Transfer. Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, by Nolan Brian, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.) [SLCS 167].
• 2015. ‘On the origin of special numerals for ‘one’ in south-eastern China: [kei213] in the Western Min dialect of Shaowu’, in Diversity in Sinitic languages, ed. by Hilary Chappell, Oxford University Press.

Conference presentations

• 2023 April (upcoming) ‘On the personal pronouns of Shaowu’. Workshop on Chinese dialect grammar in typological perspective, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
• 2019 June ‘On the negation of Shaowu’. Presentation at the Journées CRLAO (JLAO 32), Paris, France.
• 2013 August ‘The Shaowu GET-GIVE verb [tie53]’. Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT-10). Leipzig, Germany.
• 2013 June ‘Shaowu: A typological profile of a hybrid Sinitic language of Min-Gan in northwest Fujian Province’. Presentation at the Final Symposium for the ERC Sinotype Project. Paris, France.
• 2013 May ‘The argument structure, multi-functionality and poly-grammaticalisation pathways of the GET verb [tie53] in the Shaowu dialect (Min-Gan supra-group) in south- eastern China’. Paper presented at the 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (25- SCL), Reykyavik, Iceland.
• 2011 September ‘Possible origins of basic numbers in Southern China’. Paper presented at the 7thEuropean Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-7), Venice, Italy.
• 2011 June ‘Classifier and/ or numeral? [kei213] of Shaowu in Fujian, China’. Paper presented at the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23), University of Oregon, the U.S.A.
• 2011 May ‘From classifier to numeral: [kei213] of Shaowu in Fujian, China’. Paper presented at the Workshop on "Ecology, Population Movements, and Language Diversity, Collegium de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Lyon, France.
• 2010 November ‘The classifier GE in the Shaowu dialect in north-western Fujian: its properties and multi-functionality’. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Chinese dialectal grammars, Shanghai, China.
• 2010 September 7th International Symposium on Ancient Chinese grammar, Roscoff, France. Participation at the ERC workshop.
• 2010 May ‘Sinitic numeral classifier systems: origins, diachronic development and synchronic variations’. Joint presentation at COST Action A31 Final Conference: Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in a Cross-cultural Perspective, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris and CRLAO-EHESS, France.
• 2009 December International Conference on Chinese Dialects and the 15th National Conference of the Chinese Dialect Society, University of Macau, China. Participation.
• 2009 August The 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT- 8). UC Berkeley, USA. Participation.

CRLAO-EHESS Seminars

• 2018 March ‘On the topic-comment structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2015 June ‘Giving is receiving: on the poly-functional Shaowu morpheme [tie53]’, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2014 May 'The polysemy and grammaticalisation pathways of the GET/GIVE verb [tie53] in Shaowu', CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2013 March ‘On the complex structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2013 February ‘On the Shaowu modality’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO- EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2012 December ‘On the comparative structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2012 November ‘On the ditransitive constructions of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype  Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2012 October ‘On the clausal structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France
• 2011 November ‘On the complex structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2011 June ‘On the predicate structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2011 March ‘Sinitic adpositions and adpositional phrases’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.
• 2010 April ‘On the nominal structure of Shaowu’. Talk given at the Sinotype Project, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris, France.

Research visits

• 2012 January Research visit to the Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong
• 2011 July Research visit to Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, the U.S.A.
• 2009 May Short-term scientific mission in the framework of COST Action A31: Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective, to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Summer schools

• 2013 August DGfs Summer School on Linguistic Typology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
• 2011 July-August Linguistic Institute 2011 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, held by the Linguistic Society of America, U.S.A.
• 2010 August DFG-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology held by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
• 2009 July-August Linguistic Institute 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley, held by the Linguistic Society of America, U.S.A.
• 2009 June The 5th Spring School of European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL5) at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute for Oriental Cultures and Antiquity, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Conference organisation

• 2013 June The Final Symposium for the ERC Sinotype Project, Paris, France.
• 2009 July The 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-17). Paris, France.

Field trips to China

Fieldwork carried out in Shaowu city, China, for the PhD thesis A Grammar of Shaowu in the following periods:

• 2014 June
• 2013 May - June
• 2012 Jan - April
• 2010 December
• 2010 July - August
• 2009 December