I am currently a year 2 PhD student at Newcastle University in the UK, specializing in generative syntax. My doctoral research mainly addresses syntactic issues related to adverbs under the framework of minimalist syntax. Besides, I have a personal interest in syntactic research on Wu Chinese as well.

My educational journey has been quite unconventional. I attended a secondary vocational school in high school, where I majored in Business English. Later, I was admitted to a vocational college (Zhejiang Financial College) with the same major for my undergraduate studies. After three years, I took the standardized college transfer exam and was accepted into a bachelor’s program in English at China Jiliang University, where I studied for two years. Upon completing my undergraduate degree, I pursued a master’s degree at the University of Leeds in the UK. After graduating, I spent six months studying Japanese at a language school in Kyoto, Japan, as part of my gap year plan. Finally, I arrived at Newcastle University in the UK to pursue my PhD.

Research Interests

• Adverb syntax; Chinese dialects syntax (esp. Wu Chinese)
• Generative Syntax: Minimalist Program; Distributed Morphology
• Syntax-Prosody Interface: Contiguity Theory
• Natural Language Processing (Python)
• And all sorts of interesting language phenomena

I am also passionate about writing popular science articles on linguistics, and providing online tutorials and Q&A sessions in generative syntax. Below are some related websites and videos.

External Links

Zhihu 知乎 (Popular science; written in Chinese)

• 语言学流派与语言习得概述. Link
• 如何画句法学中各种成分的树状图及其对应框状图. Link
• 最简方案框架下的Merge, Adjoin, Move和Agree操作. Link
• 生成语法Y/T-Model简述——有关句子的推导与表征. Link
• 什么是生成语法的逻辑形式？从纯句法层面到句法语义接口层面. Link
• 基于生成语法管约论的句法推导实操. Link

Bilibili (Instructional video series on Syntax, instructed in Chinese)

• How to draw trees (1) Link
• How to draw trees (2) Link
• X-bar theory Link
• Theta theory Link
• Case theory Link
• Head movement Link
• A-movement Link
• A’-movement Link
• Bounding Theory Link
• Binding Theory Link
• Distributed Morphology Link
• An Introduction to the Minimalist Program (1): From P&P to MP Link

More to come!