Yenan Sun (孙叶楠) Contact: Department of Linguistics University of Chicago 1115 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637 USA yenansun[at]uchicago[dot]edu

Hello, I'm a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Before pursing PhD studies, I completed my BA in Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing University. Research interests semantics, syntax-semantics interface Ongoing Projects Focus particle 'only' in East Asian languages Identity terms (e.g. same), equatives       Two strategies of samenss in Mandarin       The connection between same and equatives       Why *(the) same Quantification       Mandarin mei with/without dou Referentiality (definiteness, specificity, indexicals)       The interaction between demonstratives and relative clauses in Mandarin       Numerial yi 'one' as domain restrictor in Mandarin Chinese Adjectives       A DM analysis of reduplication in Mandarin adjectives       The role of contextual-pragmatic information in speech perception