Zheng Shen 申正

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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, self-paced reading, Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.

Current team: Beth Chan (Research assistant)

Here is my CV as of Mar. 2026. Also, you may find Ling Alert helpful.

Updates
  • 2025.3- Zheng Shen and Nick Huang's paper The role of phases and specificity in definite islands has been accepted by Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
  • 2025.2 - Beth Chan and Zheng Shen's paper Conditions on wh-the-hell licensing: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English has been accepted by Linguistic Inquiry.
  • 2025.8 - We hosted Singapore Summer Meeting 2025
  • 2025.6 - Zheng Shen gave a keynote speech titled Findings and puzzles on syntactic islands in Colloquial Singapore English (joint work with Beth Chan) at the Experimental Studies of Language conference at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
  • 2025.3 - Rachel Tan and Zheng Shen's paper on wh-optionality in Singlish has been published in Journal of Linguistics (available https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000355)


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