students

Doctoral theses

Dissertations advised as chair or committee member (actively engaged in the thesis project):

• Ka Fai Yip, Yale, 2026: Doubling down on Exclusivity: Issues at the Syntax-semantics Interface
• Daniel Aremu, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2025 (as second supervisor): Focus sensitivity in Mabia and Yoruboid
• Anne Nguyen, NUS, 2021 (as chair): Formal analysis of the Vietnamese sentence-final particle cơ
  • Resulting publication: “A scalar semantics for the Vietnamese sentence-final particle cơ”
• Theresa Helke, NUS Philosophy, 2018: On conditionals

Current students:

• Zhendong Liu, USC
• Agnes Bi, MIT

Selected dissertations for which I served as reviewer / defense panel member (after the thesis was substantially written):

• Magdalena Lohninger, Vienna, 2025: Patterns in Chaos: Composite A’/A Probes
• James Gray, ANU, 2023: Topics in Pintupi-Luritja syntax and semantics

MA theses

MA theses advised at the National University of Singapore:

• Keely New, 2020: The semantics of plurality in Burmese
  • Resulting publication: “A post-suppositional account of associative plurals in Burmese” (SALT)
• CHENG Yuanchen, 2020: Classification of object control verbs in Mandarin Chinese

Honours theses

Selected BA honours theses advised at the National University of Singapore:

• CHOW Keng Ji, 2021: Presuppositions, Implicatures and the Scope of Exhaustification
  • Resulting publication: “Restrictions on the position of exh” (SALT)
• Joey Lim, 2020: Clitic doubling, the double nominative construction, and word order in Pangasinan
  • Resulting publication: “Deriving scrambling with word order freezing” (Glossa)
• TAN Yan Er, 2020: On the semantics of somemore in Colloquial Singapore English
• Meghan Lim, 2019: (In)definite marking in Burmese
  • Resulting publications: “Definiteness and indefiniteness in Burmese” (TripleA) and “Anti-uniqueness without articles” (SALT)
• Cara Leong, 2019: Long-distance movement, binding, and scope in a continuation grammar
  • Resulting publication: “Long-distance dependencies in continuation grammar” (PACLIC)
• Keely New, 2018: Predicate-fronting in Burmese
• Lauren Koh, 2018: An analysis of Colloquial Singapore English where got constructions
• Cheryl Lim, 2018: Topicalisation and extraction in Bikol
  • Resulting publication: “Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction” (NLLT)
• Joe Wieky, 2017: Honorification in Nepali’s subject-verb agreement
• Phoebe Cheong, 2016: Sentence-final already and only in Singapore English
• Kevin Martens Wong, 2016: Differential Object Marking in Kristang, an endangered creole in Singapore