I am currently a third year 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!