Papers & Presentations

Papers

In prep.

“ ‘Optional’ ergativity in Tibetan as Agree-based dependent case” Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55).

“Weakening containment: A view from overt positives in Tibetan” Talk to be given at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2025).

Presentations

2025

“Weakening containment: A view from overt positives in Tibetan” Talk to be given at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2025). [handout]

2024

“ ‘Optional’ ergativity in Tibetan as Agree-based dependent case” Poster at the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55). [poster]

2023

“Tibetan gradable adjectives: evidence against the containment hypothesis” Talk at Stony Brook, NYU, Yale and CUNY Linguistic Conference (SYNC 23).

2021

Ming Xiang, Christine Gu, Yixue Quan, Weijie Xu, and Suiping Wang. “Probability matching vs. regularization in contact-induced syntactic change”. 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2021) [abstract]

2020

“Dative – Allative – Locative Case Syncretism in Tibetan”. Talk at the 14th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium (CULC14)

Invited Talks & Workshops

2025

“Feature-based morphophonological learning”. Talk at PhPhoNE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

2024

“Topic vs. Subject in Tibetan ergativity: a syntactic approach”. Workshop on Ergativity and Information Structure, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

“Case optionality by movement: rethinking the Tibetan ergative”, Yale Syntax Reading Group (Yale SynRG) [handout]

“Weakening Containment: A view from overt positives in Tibetan”. Linguistics Noon Colloquium, Northwestern University.