36.3484, Confs: UCL Workshop on Chinese Syntax and Beyond (Online)

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Subject: 36.3484, Confs: UCL Workshop on Chinese Syntax and Beyond (Online)

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Date: 13-Nov-2025
From: Ad Neeleman [a.neeleman at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: UCL Workshop on Chinese Syntax and Beyond


UCL Workshop on Chinese Syntax and Beyond

Date: 06-Dec-2025 - 06-Dec-2025
Location: Online
Contact: Ad Neeleman
Contact Email: a.neeleman at ucl.ac.uk
Meeting URL:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/dec/ucl-workshop-chinese-syntax-and-beyond

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Language Family(ies): Chinese

UCL Linguistics is organizing a one-day workshop on syntax with an
emphasis on Chinese with Audrey Li (USC) and Coppe van Urk (QMUL) as
invited speakers. The workshop will be held on Saturday 6 Dec 2025,
09:00 – 17:30, in the following location:
Room 731, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL.
Program
9:00-10:00 Audrey Li (USC) How is "I am linguistics" good? - exploring
a unique copula
10:00-10:45 Boyan Yin (UCL) Mandarin resultative V-DE involves clausal
modification
Coffee/tea break
11:15-12:00 Lulu Guo (QMUL) Between head-stranding ellipsis and
polarity ellipsis: a syntactic dilemma
12:00-13:00 Huacheng Cao (UCL) Banning Improper Movement in A Local
Derivational Grammar
Lunch
14:30:15:15 Yiyang Guo (Cambridge) A tale of two orders: Postverbal
object positions in event counting
15:15-16:00 Ad Neeleman and Qianyi Wu (UCL) Spurious ta
Coffee/tea break
16:20-17:20 Coppe van Urk (QMUL) Intermediate steps of lowering in
Tigrinya



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