Zheng Shen 申正

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



Contact: Office: Block AS5 #05-32, 7 Arts Link, Singapore