I'm an Assistant Professor at the
Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies,
National University of Singapore.
I'm a linguist who works toward deepening our understanding of human linguistic capacity with cross-linguistic data collected using different methods.
I work
on filler-gap dependency, multi-valuation, agreement with con/disjunction;
in English, Singlish, Chinese, Germanic languages, Slavic languages;
with
acceptability judgment, truth value judgment, forced choice, elicitation.
Current team:
Beth Chan (MA student)
Here is my
CV as of July 2024. Also, you may find
Ling Alert helpful.
Updates
- 2024.9 - Nick Huang and Zheng Shen's paper on main verb effects on wh-subextraction is published in the Proceedings of the 14th GLOW in Asia (available here)
- 2024.8 - Beth Chan, Myunghye Yoo (now at Korea University) and Zheng Shen presented their work at LAGB 2024 and AMLaP
- Beth Chan and Zheng Shen: Backgrounded Constructions are Islands for wh-movement but not for wh-in-situ
- Myunghye Yoo and Zheng Shen: Role of attractor structures in the computation of number agreement in English
- 2024.7 - Singapore Summer Meeting 2024
- 2024.5. - Zheng Shen and Beth Chan present their works at the 37th annual meeting on Human Sentence Processing
- Beth Chan and Zheng Shen: Islands for wh-extraction and wh-in-situ are backgrounded in Singlish
- Zheng Shen and Beth Chan: Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questions
- 2024.4. - Zheng Shen and Beth Chan present a poster at WCCFL42: Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questions