Zhendong Liu

Research interests

phase theory; movements; nominalization; post-syntactic operations; semantics of: event counting, aspect, evidentiality

Publications

• Liu, Zhendong. To appear. “The semantic composition of event counting expressions within nominals in Mandarin Chinese”. Proceedings of the 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009447.
• Liu, Zhendong. 2024. “Cyclic Movement and Chain Resolution in Swahili Relative Clauses”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9 (1): 5707. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5707.
• Liu, Zhendong. (2023). “A unified operator movement analysis for adverbial clauses and relative clauses in Swahili.” In University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences 9, edited by Ash Asudeh, 31–54.

Conference presentations

• A temporal analysis of two evidentials in Rngaba Amdo Tibetan (joint work with Lang-Gaji). Talk at GLOW in Asia 2026 The 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars, Nagoya, Japan. Mar. 2026.
• Poly-functional phrasal nominalizers in Lhasa Tibetan. Talk at SCAMS-5. Pomona, CA. Nov. 2025.
• The semantic composition of event counting expressions within nominals in Mandarin Chinese. Poster at SALT-35. Cambridge, MA. May 2025.
• Reconsidering the constituency in semelfactive event counting expressions in Mandarin Chinese“. Poster at TEAL-14. Los Angeles, CA. Mar 2025.
• Cyclic movement and copy deletion in Swahili relative clauses. Talk at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting, Jan. 2024.
• Explaining the relative marker distribution in Swahili relative clauses.
  Talk at SCAMS 3, Nov. 2023.