Department Affiliations
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Specialties
- Syntax
- Syntax-Semantics Interface
- Chinese and Malay Linguistics
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.
- M.A.: Linguistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 1994.
Publications
- Speaker presupposition and Mandarin Chinese sentence final -le: A unified analysis of the "change of state" and the "contrary to expectation" reading: Soh, Hooi Ling, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 27 (3) 623-657, 2009. Link
- Progressive Aspect, the Verbal Prefix meN-, and Stative Sentences in Malay: Soh, Hooi Ling, Hiroki Nomoto, Oceanic Linguistics, 48(1) 148-171, 2009.
- The Syntax and Semantics of Change/Transition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese: Soh, Hooi Ling, John Benjamins, Theoretical and Cross-linguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, 387-419, 2008.
- Mandarin Sentential -le, perfect and English already: Soh, Hooi Ling, Meijia Gao, Mouton de Gruyter, Event Structure in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, 447-473, 2008.
- Ellipsis, Last Resort, and the Dummy Auxiliary shi 'be' in Mandarin Chinese: Soh, Hooi Ling, Linguistic Inquiry, 38(1) 178-188, 2007.
- It's over: Verbal -le in Mandarin Chinese: Soh, Hooi Ling, Meijia Gao, John Benjamins, The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, 91-109, 2007.
- Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese: Soh, Hooi Ling, Linguistic Inquiry, 36(1) 143-155, 2005.
- Mandarin Distributive Quantifier GE 'each', the Structure of Double Complement Constructions and the Verb-Preposition Distinction: Soh, Hooi Ling, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 14(2) 155-173, 2005.
- Perfective Aspect and Accomplishment Situations in Mandarin Chinese: Soh, Hooi Ling, Jenny Kuo, Perspectives on Aspect, 199-216, 2005.
- Antecedent-Contained Deletion Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Soh, Hooi Ling, Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 33), 2003.
- The Syntax and Semantics of Phonological Phrasing in Shanghai and Hokkien: Soh, Hooi Ling, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 10(1) 37-80, 2001.
Research Activities
- Aspect in Malay - The Syntax and Semantics of Change: Supported by Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, July 1, 2008 - January 15, 2010
- Noun Phrase Structure and Interpretation: A Study of Hmong: with Judith W. Fuller, Hiroki Nomoto, Dustin A. Chacon (UROP-Spring09), Vincent Carveth (UROP-Spring09), September 2008 - Present
Professional Activities
- Editorial Board: Journal of East Asian Linguistics , October 2008 - Present
- Director of Undergraduate Studies: Linguistics , September 2008 - Present
- The 14th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, 2010: Chair of local organizing committee , June 2008 - May 2010
- "Form, interpretation and distribution of nominal expressions in two classifier languages: A comparative study of Hmong and Vietnamese: (with Vincent H. Carveth, Dustin A. Chacón, Judith W. Fuller, Giang Le, Hiroki Nomoto and Andrew Simpson), The 19th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Poster Presentation , May 2009
- "Movement across meN- and unaccusatives in Malay": (with Hiroki Nomoto). The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA , 8-11 January 2009
- "Verbal -le clauses as minimal narratives": (with Shiao Wei Tham). The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio , April 25-27, 2008
Awards
- Invited Presentation. Persidangan Bahasa Melayu Antarabangsa (International Conference on Malay), Subang, Malaysia, 18-20 November 2008
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Grant for Professors, 2003 - 2004
Courses Taught
- Ling 5001 - Introduction to Linguistics (Graduate)
- Ling 5201 - Syntax I
- Ling 5202 - Syntax II
- Ling 8210 - Seminar in Syntax
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