Isaac Wei
Contract PhD Candidate / Guest
- Name
- Mr. Y. Wei MA
- Telephone
- 071 5272125
- y.wei@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0007-0539-4538
Isaac Wei is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
Fields of interest
- Generative syntax
- Comparative syntax
- Chinese dialectal grammar
Research
I am interested in the syntax of the Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages of China. My research is characterised by investigating empirical data against the background of the generative formal approach.
Grants and awards
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Curriculum vitae
| 2020-2023 | MA, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou, China); MA thesis: An investigation into the sentence-final particle kʰә24 in Xiangzhou Mandarin (supervisor: Qingwen Zhang) |
| 2016-2020 | BA, English, Nankai University (Tianjin, China) |
Contract PhD Candidate / Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL promovendus
- Wei Y. (2024), On the syntax of two mirative particles in Xiangzhou Mandarin. LOT summer school 2024, Leiden. 17 June 2024 - 28 June 2024. [conference poster].