FASS Staff Profile

ZHENG SHEN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS & THEATRE STUDIES

Appointment:
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Office:
AS5/05-32
Email:
zhengshen@nus.edu.sg
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Homepage:
http://zheng-shen.github.io/
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Brief Introduction

I'm a syntactician who works toward deepening our understanding of human linguistic capacity with cross-linguistic data collected using experimental methods.

Website: http://zheng-shen.github.io/

Email: zhengshen@nus.edu.sg

Office: AS5 05-32


Teaching Areas

  • 2021 - 2022 Sem 2
    • GET1036/GEX1019 The logic of language
  • 2021 - 2022 Sem 1
    • EL3201 Syntax
    • EL4880D Experimental syntax
    2020 - 2021 Sem 2
    • EL 4021 Advanced Syntax
    • EL 4880D Experimental Syntax
  • 2020 - 2021 Sem 1
    • EL 3201 Syntax

Current Research

Syntactic locality: restrictions on movement especially out of noun phrases, e.g. definiteness effect, role of verb of creation. etc.

Agreement: especially when one elements agrees with multiple elements: Either he or I ?am/?is/?are going.

Right node raising: when the right most element is shared: This tall and that short panda/*pandas are a couple.

Ellipsis, when you mean more than what you say: Q: Who did John buy the largest photo of? A: Mary.

Acquisition of degree expressions: How did you learn the meaning of 'best' and  '2 inches taller'?


Research Interests

  • Theoretical syntax
  • Experimental syntax
  • Language acquisition

Publications

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

  • Laszakovits, Sabine and Zheng Shen. (eds). 2021. The size of things I: Structure building. Open Generative Syntax. Language science press.

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