Yenan Sun (孫葉楠)
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Yenan Sun, University of Chicago

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✉ yenansun@cuhk.edu.hk
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☏ (852) 3943 7079
  • About
    I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and had a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University.

  • Research interests
    Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics interface, Chinese Linguistics
    • tense, aspect, event structure
    • adjectives, degree semantics
    • quantification, referentiality
    • discourse, focus particles, at-issueness, projectivity

  • Ongoing projects
    • Incompleteness, aspect, telicity
      • Incompleteness and (not-)at-issue Updates in Mandarin Chinese
      • Incompleteness Under Discussion [PhD Dissertation]
      • Removing incompletive potential with Mandarin -le (with Lawrence Y. L. Cheung and Jackie Yan-Ki Lai)
    • Adjectives, degrees, equation constructions
      • Decomposing same
      • Equating by degrees or kinds, or both
      • Two strategies of sameness in Mandarin
      • A DM analysis of reduplication in Mandarin adjectives (with Jackie Yan-Ki Lai)
    • Focus-sensitive particles in Asian languages
      • A bipartite analysis of zhiyou ‘only’ in Mandarin Chinese
      • Only-concord in Vietnamese
      • Mandarin mei with/without dou
    • Discourse-related
      • The interaction between demonstratives and relative clauses in Mandarin (with Jackie Yan-Ki Lai)
      • The role of contextual-pragmatic information in speech perception (with Eszter Ronai, Alan Yu and Ming Xiang)

**NEW**
- October 2024: Prof. Jackie Lai and I are looking for a full-time RA to assist in our project on second language learning and teaching. Please check out this page!
- I'll give a talk on Mandarin equation constructions at CUHK Linguistics Seminar on Oct 29, 2024. [Handout]