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Conference Program 會議議程

The Fourth International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese (ICFAMC-4) • December 18-19, 2025 • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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December 18, 2025 (Thursday) 2025年12月18日(星期四)

8:30am–9:00am
Registration
9:00am–9:15am
Opening Ceremony 開幕式

[Venue: ELB LT4]

Welcoming Speech by Professor Victor Junnan PAN, Chairperson, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, CUHK

香港中文大學語言學及現代語言系潘俊楠教授致歡迎辭

Group Photo Taking 合照

9:15am–10:15am
Session 1 — Keynote Speech I 主旨演講 (一)

[Venue: ELB LT4]

Chair: Thomas Hun-Tak LEE

Mitigation and Strengthening in Assertion and Questions: The Management of Trustworthiness

Manfred KRIFKA

10:15am–10:40am
Coffee Break

Session 2A

[Venue: ELB 205]
Chair: Yenan SUN
Invited Talk I 特邀演講 (一) [E] [英]
10:40am–11:20am
Relational Nouns as Definite Singulars

Xuping LI and Xing LIU

Regular Presentations 分組報告 1 [E] [英] — Semantics of Wh-phrases and Wh-structures 疑問詞及疑問結構的語義
11:20am–11:45am
Ungrammatical or Infelicitous? Licensing Condition for Mandarin Wh-Indefinites

Matthew Ganquan SHI and Haihua PAN

11:45am–12:10pm
Clausal Parentheticals in Chinese: The Semantics of Which in Code-mixing Speech

Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE

12:10pm–12:35pm
Wh-doublets in Cantonese and Their Encoding of Evidentiality and Plurality

Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE and Oscar Hok-yuen WONG

Session 2B

[Venue: ELB 207]
Chair: Regine LAI
Invited Talk II 特邀演講 (二) [E] [英]
10:40am–11:20am
The Influence of Information Structure and Processing Factors on Word Order and Argument Realization in Child Language

Jidong CHEN

Regular Presentations 分組報告 2 [E] [英] — Acquisition and Processing of Semantic Knowledge 語義知識的習得與處理
11:20am–11:45am
Affectedness in Mandarin Bei-passives in Monolingual and Bilingual Children

Yuxuan CHEN, Mengyao SHANG, and Ziyin MAI

11:45am–12:10pm
Counterfactual Reasoning and Counterfactual Expressions in Mandarin-speaking Preschoolers

Xinyu SUN, Mengyao SHANG, and Ziyin MAI

12:10pm–12:35pm
Focus and Positioning of Zài-PPs in Child Mandarin: Evidence from Corpora and Prosody

Minming CHENG

12:35pm–1:50pm
Lunch

Session 3A

[Venue: ELB 205]
Chair: Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE
Invited Talk III 特邀演講 (三) [E] [英]
1:50pm–2:30pm
Chinese Counterfactuals in a New Key

Yan JIANG

Invited Talk V 特邀演講 (五) [E] [英]
2:30pm–3:10pm
Chinese Exclamative Constructions Revisited

Jiun-Shiung WU

Regular Presentations 分組報告 3 [E] [英] — Semantics of Conditionals, Causality, and Exclusivity 條件句、因果與排他性的語義
3:10pm–3:35pm
Causality and Modality: A Formal Semantic Analysis of Causative

Zhuosi LUO

3:35pm–4:00pm
The Semantics of Zhiyou-conditionals: A CT-based Account

Edwin Cheng-Yu TSAI

4:00pm–4:25pm
Intervention Effects Are Not Uniform: Evidence from Exclusive Doubling in Cantonese

Ka-Fai YIP

Session 3B

[Venue: ELB 207]
Chair: Zhuo CHEN
Invited Talk IV 特邀演講 (四) [E] [英]
1:50pm–2:30pm
Negative Modals in Mandarin Chinese and Shantou Southern Min Dialect — Scope Interpretation Vs. Morpho-Semantic Interaction in Modal Distinctions

Peppina Po-lun LEE and Bit-chee KWOK

Invited Talk VI 特邀演講 (六) [E] [英]
2:30pm–3:10pm
A Perspective-based Account of Speaker-oriented Adverbs in Mandarin

Shumian YE

Regular Presentations 分組報告 4 [E] [英] — Event Semantics 事件的語義
3:10pm–3:35pm
Embedded Clauses and Future-shifted Readings

Hongyuan SUN and Hamida DEMIRDACHE

3:35pm–4:00pm
Events with a Threshold: The Case of Mandarin V+ phase Complement DAO ‘arrive/to’

Shiao Wei THAM

4:00pm–4:25pm
A Compositional Analysis of Mandarin Chinese Experiential Marker - Guò

Nan WANG, Thomas STEPHEN, and Fausto CARCASSI

4:25pm–4:45pm
Coffee Break
4:45pm–5:45pm
Session 4 — Keynote Speech II 主旨演講 (二)

[Venue: ELB LT4]

Chair: Victor Junnan PAN

Question Under Discussion in Language Comprehension

Ming XIANG

December 19, 2025 (Friday) 2025年12月19日(星期五)

8:30am–9:00am
Registration

Session 5A

[Venue: ELB 205]
Chair: Edwin TSAI
Invited Talk VII 特邀演講 (七) [E] [英]
9:00am–9:40am
Definite Interpretations of Bare Numeral Phrases in Mandarin

Mingming LIU

Regular Presentations 分組報告 5 [E] [英] — Semantics of Quantity and Quantification 數量及量化的語義
9:40am–10:05am
Against Three-Way Ambiguity: A Monosemous Account of Henduo

Yuli FENG and Lei CHU

10:05am–10:30am
Paucal Operators in Mandarin: Numeral-Bound ‘Ji’ vs. Nominally-Anchored ‘Xie’

Jin LU

10:30am–10:55am
Revisiting Existential and Scalar Presuppositions: Insights from Two EVENs in Mandarin Chinese

Lei CHU

Session 5B

[Venue: ELB 207]
Chair: Zhuosi LUO
Invited Talk VIII 特邀演講 (八) [C] [中]
9:00am–9:40am
基於LLM的漢語反事實條件句自動推理

Zhenyu CHEN

Regular Presentations 分組報告 6 [C] [中] — 情態、單調性及否定的語義
9:40am–10:05am
單調還是否定：「都」「也」極項句的允准本質

Changwei NIU

10:05am–10:30am
基於語境信息視角的客觀認識情態語義分析

Kai DONG

10:30am–10:55am
Pretense, Falsity and Negation

Dingfan LIN

10:55am–11:15am
Coffee Break

Session 6A

[Venue: ELB 205]
Chair: Xuping LI
Invited Talk IX 特邀演講 (九) [E] [英]
11:15am–11:55am
Jianzhi and Extremeness in Mandarin Chinese -- A Degree Semantic Analysis

Yingying WANG and Tiantian WANG

Regular Presentations 分組報告 7 [E] [英] — Semantics of Nominal Phrases and Connectives 名詞短語與連詞的語義
11:55am–12:20pm
On Semantic Licensing Conditions of Pre-Classifier Modification and Related Problems

Qi HAO

12:20pm–12:45pm
Parentheses as Prominence Operators: Ascending–Descending Effects with Or as a Case Study

Jialiang YAN

Session 6B

[Venue: ELB 207]
Chair: Dun DENG
Invited Talk X 特邀演講 (十) [C] [中]
11:15am–11:55am
我們賴以生存的語意——以楊絳《喜劇兩種》一九八二年版後記為例

Jianhua HU

Regular Presentations 分組報告 8 [C] [中] — 程度與量化的語義
11:55am–12:20pm
定比測量與定序測量——談「整整」與「足足」的測量差異

Jiaming SUN

12:20pm–12:45pm
Towards a Unified Analysis of Mandarin Hái: Evidence from Comparative Constructions

Yuting WENG

12:45pm–2:00pm
Lunch

Session 7A

[Venue: ELB 205]
Chair: Shiao Wei THAM
Invited Talk XI 特邀演講 (十一) [E] [英]
2:00pm–2:40pm
Can Face Emojis Target Presuppositions?

Yuan SHEN

Invited Talk XIII 特邀演講 (十三) [E] [英]
2:40pm–3:20pm
Contrastive Particles: Resolving QUDs vs. Managing Common Ground

Linmin ZHANG

Regular Presentations 分組報告 9 [E] [英] — Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 語義與語用介面研究
3:20pm–3:45pm
Fragment Questions in Mandarin Chinese

Rong HE and Mingming LIU

3:45pm–4:10pm
The Attitude Meaning of the Mandarin Repetition Adverb Chóngxīn ‘again’

Changxin KE

Session 7B

[Venue: ELB 207]
Chair: Yingying WANG
Invited Talk XII 特邀演講 (十二) [C] [中]
2:00pm–2:40pm
焦點對「都」「只」句排他性語義表達的不同作用

Zanhui HUANG

Invited Talk XIV 特邀演講 (十四) [E] [英]
2:40pm–3:20pm
How many BAs are there in Mandarin? — One BA to Rule Them All

Beibei XU and Xiaoshi HU

Regular Presentations 分組報告 10 [E] [英] — Semantics of Information Structure (Topic/Focus) 信息結構（主題/焦點）的語義
3:20pm–3:45pm
The Telicity Constraint in Mandarin Shi-de Clefts: A Reassessment

Xue XIA

3:45pm–4:10pm
Bare SELF Koʐen as Verum Operator in Huarong Sinitic: Type-shifting and Pragmatic Reasoning

Penghui XIANG

4:10pm–4:30pm
Coffee Break
4:30pm–5:30pm
Session 8 — Keynote Speech III 主旨演講 (三)

[Venue: ELB LT4]

Chair: Yan JIANG

Demonstratives, Definites, Bare Nouns: What Competes with What

Veneeta DAYAL

5:30pm–5:45pm
Closing Ceremony
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