Minqi Liu | Publications

Liu, Minqi, Hyams, Nina, and Mateu, Victoria. 2022. The Syntax and Acquisition of Mandarin Sluice-like Constructions. Tsinghua Linguistics, Commercial Press, Beijing.
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Liu, Minqi. 2022. Prevalence of Long Passives in Child Mandarin: Input and Intervention Effects. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 46].

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  title = {Prevalence of Long Passives in Child Mandarin: Input and Intervention Effects},
  author = {Liu, Minqi},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 46]},
  pages = {469--82},
  year = {2022},
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Liu, Minqi, Hyams, Nina, and Mateu, Victoria. 2020. Late Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Mandarin Sluice-like Constructions. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 44].

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@inproceedings{liu2020late,
  title = {Late Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Mandarin Sluice-like Constructions},
  author = {Liu, Minqi and Hyams, Nina and Mateu, Victoria},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 44]},
  pages = {322--35},
  year = {2020},
  pdf = {Liu_BUCLD44_sluicing.pdf},
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Liu, Minqi. 2019. English adaptation in Mandarin A-not-A constructions. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4(1).

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  title = {English adaptation in Mandarin A-not-A constructions},
  author = {Liu, Minqi},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4(1)},
  volume = {4},
  number = {1},
  pages = {38--1},
  year = {2019},
  pdf = {Liu_LSA2019_A-not-A_paper.pdf},
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Liu, Minqi. 2019. The Syntax and Acquisition of Mandarin Sluice-like Constructions. Unpublished masters thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Sluicing refers to an elliptical structure in which only a wh-phrase is overt in a CP, as in "Someone left. I don’t know who". In Mandarin, sluice-like strings (‘S-strings’) with argument wh-remnants require the presence of "shi", a form that is ambiguous between a copula and a focus marker. This paper proposes a hybrid analysis of Mandarin S-strings as having two possible derivations, a sluice and a pseudo-sluice, unless one of the structures is independently forced. When "shi" is a copula, the S-string has a pseudo-sluice analysis, [pro be wh-phrase], involving neither movement nor ellipsis. When "shi" is a focus marker, the S-string is derived by focus movement followed by TP-ellipsis yielding a sluice analysis. Results from a comprehension experiment with 59 Mandarin-speaking children show that 3-4-year-olds have only a pseudo-sluice/copula analysis of S-strings. They acquire the sluice/focus movement derivation at approximately age 5 at which point they show the “subject advantage” typically associated with A’-movement structures in young children.
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@mastersthesis{Liu-MAthesis, author = {Liu, Minqi}, title = {The Syntax and Acquisition of Mandarin Sluice-like Constructions}, school = {University of California, Los Angeles}, year = {2019}, type = {thesis}, note = {Unpublished masters thesis}, pdf = {Liu_MA_sluicing.pdf}, bibtex_show = {true} }
Liu, Minqi. 2017. On Quasi-Possessive Object Constructions in Modern Chinese. Unpublished undergraduate thesis, Peking University.

Liu, Minqi, Mateu, Victoria, and Hyams, Nina. Forthcoming. Intervention effects in Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of passives. Talk at the 47th Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47), Boston University.
Liu, Minqi. 2021. Rethinking raising vs. control analyses in Mandarin bei-passives. Talk given at the 33rd Meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33), UChicago (Online).
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Liu, Minqi. 2021. Mandarin Passives Revisited. Talk given at the Meeting of the Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax (SCAMS 2020-2021), USC (Online).
Liu, Minqi, Hyams, Nina, and Mateu, Victoria. 2019. Late Intervention Effects in Mandarin Sluice Acquisition. Talk given at the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), Boston, MA.
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Liu, Minqi, Hyams, Nina, and Mateu, Victoria. 2019. Sluicing in Child Mandarin: Effects of Lexical Ambiguity. Talk given at the 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 14), Milan, Italy.
Liu, Minqi. 2019. Delayed Subject Advantages in Mandarin Sluicing Acquisition. Talk given at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 55), Chicago, IL.
Liu, Minqi. 2018. Intervention vs. Locality: Delayed Subject Preferences in Mandarin Sluicing Acquisition . Talk given at the 2nd California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Liu, Minqi. 2018. Object Movement in Relation to Duration phrase in Mandarin. Talk given at the 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 26),University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI.
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Liu, Minqi. 2016. Deriving the Verb Copying Construction in Chinese. Talk given at the 12th Academic Annual Conference of the Beijing Language Association. Beijing, China.

Liu, Minqi. 2021. Prevalence of long passives in child Mandarin: Input and intervention effects. Poster presented at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46), Online.
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Liu, Minqi. 2021. Adverbial Clitics in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec. Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA 2021), Online.
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Liu, Minqi. 2019. English Adaptation in Mandarin A-not-A Constructions. Poster presented at the 93rdAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 93), New York, NY.
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