Zheng Shen 申正


2023. Processing closest agreement with disjunction subjects, AMLaP Asia 2023, ICTEAP-4. (with Myung Hye Yoo)

2023. Conditions on wh-the-hell licensing: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English, ICTEAP-4, SICOGG-25 (with Beth Chan)

2023. Effects of creation verbs in English and Chinese. The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29) (with Nick Huang)

2023. Effects of creation verbs in English and Chinese. The Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 13. (with Nick Huang)

2023. The definiteness effect in wh-fronting and wh-in situ languages. GLOW 46, Vienna. (with Nick Huang)

2023. Cross-linguistic differences in definiteness effects. The Workshop on Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition, UPenn. (with Nick Huang)

2023. Evaluating information structure and semantics approaches to locality in Colloquial Singapore English. The Human Sentence Processing conference 2023.

2023. Effects of creation verbs on wh-dependencies in English and Chinese. The Human Sentence Processing conference 2023. (with Nick Huang)

2022. The definite DP island in wh-questions and relative clauses, the 40th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40). (with Meghan Lim)

2022. The definite DP island in wh-questions and relative clauses, the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. (with Meghan Lim)

2021. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach. the 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (online). (with Meghan Lim)

2021. Coordinate Structure Constraint Violating Movement and Closest Conjunct Agreement. the 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (online).

2021. Children's interpretation of superlatives in full and fragment answers. the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-45) with Lyn Tieu

2021. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach. NELS 52, Rutgers University (online). (with Meghan Lim)

2021. On CSC-violating movement in BCS. Talk to be given at the 16th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-16), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (online).

2021. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach. the 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 23), Sogang University, South Korea (online). (with Meghan Lim)

2021. Agreement in Nominal Right Node Raising: An experimental approach. the 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 23), Sogang University, South Korea (online).

2021. Coordinate Structure Constraint and Conjunction Agreement. Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions, Frankfurt, Germany (online).

2021. Closest agreement in Slavic languages: linear order or hierarchical structure. Plenary talk at the 5th Asian Junior Linguists Conference, International Christian University (online), Jan. 15-16, 2021.

2021. Coordinate Structure Constraint and Conjunction Agreement. Poster presented at LSA 2021, Jan. 7-10, 2021.

2020. Gender Agreement with Exclusive Disjunction in Slovenian. Paper presented at SinFonIJA 13, Budapest, Hungary (online), September 24-26, 2020. (with Franc Lanko Marušič)

2020. Person and Number Agreement with Exclusive Disjunction in German. Paper presented at SICOGG 22, Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 12-14, 2020.

2020. What we can learn from agreement with exclusive disjunction. Invited talk at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (online). May 12, 2020.

2020. Gender agreement with exclusive disjunction in Slovenian. Paper presented at the 29 Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Washington (online), May 8-10, 2020. (with Franc Lanko Marušič)

2020. Closest Conjunct Agreement in Right Node Raising as minimized ungrammaticality. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, UMass, US (online), Mar. 19-21, 2020.

2019. Colliding features: two types of closest conjunct agreement. Poster presented at The alphabet of universal grammar, the British Academy, London, the U.K. Jul. 4-5, 2019.

2018. Morphological and Semantic Agreement with Multiple Values. Paper presented at Multiple Agreement across Domains 2018, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 8 - 9, 2018. (with Peter W. Smith)

2018. Agreement in Nominal Right Node Raising: an experimental approach. Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 11), Kraków, Poland, Oct. 11 - 13, 2018.

2018. Morphological and Semantic Agreement beyond Hybrid Nouns. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 49), Cornell University, Oct. 5-7, 2018. (with Peter W. Smith)

2018. Agreement in Nominal Right Node Raising: an experimental approach. Poster presented at the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Seoul, Aug. 8 - 10, 2018.

2018. Interpretive restrictions on superlatives in full vs. fragment answers. Poster presented at the 41st GLOW, Budapest, April 10-14, 2018. (with Lyn Tieu)

2018. The agreement hierarchy and multi-valuation. Poster presented at Current Issues in Comparative Syntax, the National University of Singapore, Mar. 1 - 2, 2018.

2018. Relative readings of superlatives in full vs. fragment answers: An experimental investigation. Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence 2018, University of Tübingen, Feb. 15-17, 2018. (with Lyn Tieu)

2017. The multi-valuation agreement hierarchy. Paper presented at Resolving Conflicts Across Borders workshop & SinFonIJA 10, Oct. 20 - 24, 2017.

2017. with Smith, P., Moskal, B., Katharina H. Feature resolution, feature conflicts and the structure of either ... or. Paper presented at Resolving Conflicts Across Borders workshop & SinFonIJA 10, Oct. 20 - 24, 2017.

2017. with Tieu, L. Aiming high: children's knowledge of absolute and relative readings of superlatives. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Sept. 7 - 9, 2017.

2017. Cross-Domain Multi-Valuation as Agreement Hierarchy. Paper presented at the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Aug. 9 - 11, 2017.

2016. An Asymmetry between Multi-Valued Ns and Ts. Poster presented at 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of Utah, April 29 - May 1, 2016.
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2016. On Multi-Valued Ns and Ts in Number Concord and Agreement. Paper presented at 52nd Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, April 21 - 23, 2016.

2016. Multi-Value Asymmetry in Number Agreement and Concord. Paper presented at 40th Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 18 - 20, 2016.

2016. A Superlative Argument for Syntactic Movement in Fragment Answer. Poster presented at LSA 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Jan. 9, 2016.
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2015. Fragment Answers and Movement - a Superlative Argument. Paper presented at 2015 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University College London, London, UK. Sept. 15 - 18, 2015.

2015. Number Agreement Across Borders in Nominal RNR. Paper presented at Agreement Across Borders Conference (AAB), University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia. Jun. 15 - 16, 2015.

2015. with Chris Hsieh. The ‘associative reading’ of DPs and the Quantity vs. Quality Distinction. Paper presented at the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages 2 (TripleA), University of Potsdam. Jun 3 - 5, 2015.

2015. No Clash Constraint in Nominal RNR Number Agreement. Paper presented at PLC 39, UPenn. March 20 - 22, 2015.
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2014. with Tieu, L. Beyond production: Searching for absolute and relative interpretations of superlatives. BUCLD 39, Boston University.

2014. with Tieu, L. Investigating superlatives in the littlest linguists. GLOW in Asia X, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

2014. with Tieu, L. The littlest linguists and their superlatives. CLS 50, University of Chicago.

2014. The Third Reading of the most expensive photo of Abby, PLC 38, UPenn.
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2013. Syntactic Treatment of the Relative Reading with NP Internal Focus in Superlatives, ICL 19, Geneva, Switzerland.

2013. On the Relative Reading with NP Internal Focus in Superlatives, WCCFL 31, Arizona, USA.
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