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Xuetong Yuan

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Papers

Agreement in imperative clauses: evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese.

Ka-Fai Yip and Xuetong Yuan. In Prep. In Proceedings of NELS 54.

Defocus leads to syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocated structures. [paper]

Ka-Fai Yip and Xuetong Yuan. To appear. In Proceedings of CLS 59.

Updating unexpected moves. [paper]

Xuetong Yuan. To appear. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27.

On matrix shuo in Mandarin. [paper]

Xuetong Yuan and Hiroaki Saito. 2021. In Proceedings of NACCL 32.

Extracting commitments: the case of Mandarin rising ba-declaratives. [paper]

Xuetong Yuan. 2021. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25.

Challenging the presuppositions of questions: the case of ba-interrogatives. [paper].

Xuetong Yuan. 2020. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24.


Peer-reviewed conference presentations

Teasing apart the prosodic effects of focus and of defocus: syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocation.

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. Poster to be given at LabPhon 19, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 2024.

Right dislocation, defocus, and variations in syntax- prosody mapping. [slides]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. Talk given at phex 15, Tokyo, Japan, February, 2024 [virtual].

Agreement in imperative clauses: evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. [handout]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. Poster given at NELS 54, MIT, January, 2024.

Jussive agreement with non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. [slides]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. Talk given at BCGL 16, CRISSP, October, 2023.

Defocus leads to syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocated structures. [slides]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. Talk given at CLS 59, University of Chicago.

Updating unexpected moves. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Talk given at SuB 27, Charles University, Czech.

Establishing discourse relations: two contrastive markers in Mandarin. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Poster at GLOW 45, Queen Mary University of London.

Additive Prejecent and/or Additive Alternatives: A Principle and a Parameter in Mandarin and Japanese. [slides]

Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Poster at GLOW 45 Workshop I: Typological generalizations and semantic theory, Queen Mary University of London.

Establishing discourse relations: two contrastive markers in Mandarin.

Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Talk at CLS 58.

Two contrastive markers in Mandarin.

Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Talk at TLLM 2022, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Stronger Additivity Derives Concessivity. [slides]

Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Talk at PLC 46.

Stronger additivity: Toward a unification of additivity and concessivity.

Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. 2022. Talk at Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) Semantics Conference, Keio University.

Extracting commitment: the case of Mandarin rising ba-declaratives.

Xuetong Yuan. 2020. Talk at SuB 25, London, UK. [slides available upon request].

On matrix shuo in Mandarin. [slides]

Xuetong Yuan and Hiroaki Saito. 2020. Talk at NACCL 32, Storrs, CT.

A discourse model for Mandarin ba-interrogatives. [slides].

Xuetong Yuan. 2019. Talk at SuB 24, Osnabrück, Germany.

A discourse model for Mandarin ba-interrogatives.

Xuetong Yuan. 2019. Poster at GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG XXI, Seoul, Korea.

Non-referred/invited talks

Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in imperatives. [handout]

Xuetong Yuan & Ka-Fai Yip. Talk given at Yale SRG, April, 2024.

Defocus Rephrasing: right dislocation and syntax-prosody mapping. [slides]

Ka-Fai Yip & Xuetong Yuan. Stony Brook University Linguistics’ Brown Bag talk series, April, 2024.

Conditionality without if : Mandarin conditionals and jiu. [handout]

Xuetong Yuan. SURGE reading group at Rutgers University, March, 2024.

Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in imperatives. [handout]

Xuetong Yuan & Ka-Fai Yip. Talk given at CUHK-UChicago Forum on Comparative Linguistics. CUHK, Hong Kong, March, 2024.