Contribs 學術貢獻

Kiss, Angelika, Justin R. Leung & Jianing Zhou. 2026. Interrogative and declarative questions across Chinese dialects. Languages 11(10): 209. [download]

Leung, Justin R. 2025. Detecting paths of change in the heritage context: Directional motion event expression in Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11(1/2): 142–186. [download]

Kiss, Angelika, Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo & Justin R. Leung. 2025. What can Cantonese sentence-final particles tell us about rhetorical questions?. In Tue Trinh, Anton Benz, Daniel Goodhue, Kazuko Yatsushiro & Manfred Krifka (eds.), Biased questions: Experimental results and theoretical modelling, 207–240. Berlin: Language Science Press. [download]

Leung, Justin R. & Dave Kush. 2024. Variation in Cantonese acceptability judgements due to language contact: An investigation of word order preferences in the resultative construction. Buckeye East Asian Linguistics 9: 94–113. [download]

Kiss, Angelika, Jianing Zhou & Justin R. Leung. 2024. Declarative questions in Shanghainese and Cantonese. In Gavin Bembridge (ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 14. [download]

Leung, Justin R. 2024. I’m like, “like is not a complementizer, it seems like”. In Gavin Bembridge (ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 17. [download]

Leung, Justin R. 2022. Given the sack, yet promoted: Passivizable V-IO-DO constructions in Cantonese. In Parisa Tarahomi (ed.), Proceedings of the 2022 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 11. [download]

Leung, Justin. 2022. Variation in path encoding in motion events in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 28(2): 10. [download]

Troberg, Michelle & Justin Leung. 2021. On the unified change of directional/aspectual verb particles in French. Journal of Historical Syntax 5(40): 1–76. [download]

Leung, Justin R. 2026. The role of grammatical function (and information structure) on classifier choice in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 1st Cantonese Applied Linguistics Conference × 9th Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (CALA-1 × FoCaL-9), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, July 4. [abstract]

Kiss, Angelika, Justin R. Leung & Jianing Zhou. 2026. Interrogative and declarative sentences used as questions in Chinese. Poster presented at the third Polar Questions Across Languages meeting (POQAL-3), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, April 29–30.

Leung, Justin R. 2025. A multidimensional approach to heritage languages: Cantonese classifier constructions in Toronto. Poster presented at the 53rd meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 53), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 5–7. [abstract]

Leung, Justin R., Paul Ueda, Ka Fai Law, & Marjorie K.M. Chan. 2025. The role of prompt language in Generative AI perception of regional variation. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS 51), Western University, London, Ontario, July 16–18. [abstract]

Ueda, Paul, Ka Fai Law, Justin R. Leung & Marjorie K.M. Chan. 2025. Harnessing generative artificial intelligence to study Cantonese linguistic variation. Paper presented at the 7th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-7), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 11–12. [abstract]

Johnston, William & Justin Leung. 2025. A (de)prepositional approach to directed motion predicates in Cantonese and Hmong. Paper presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 14 (TEAL-14), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 18–20. [abstract]

Ueda, Paul, Ka Fai Law, Justin R. Leung & Marjorie K.M. Chan. 2024. Generative artificial intelligence and regionally marked variation perception. Paper presented at the Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen/virtual, November 28–29.

Justin R. Leung. 2024. Agentive directional verbs in Cantonese are manner verbs. Paper presented at the Seventh Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-7), Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong/virtual, June 22. [abstract]

Justin R. Leung. 2024. I’m like, “Like is not a complementizer, it seems like”. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), Carleton University, Ottawa, June 17–19. [abstract] [slides]

Kiss, Angelika, Jianing Zhou & Justin Leung. 2024. Declarative questions in Shanghainese and Cantonese. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), Carleton University, Ottawa, June 17–19. [abstract]

Kiss, Angelika, Jianing Zhou & Justin Leung. 2024. Declarative questions in Shanghainese and Cantonese. Paper presented at the 16th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 16), University of Toronto, Toronto, May 11.

Leung, Justin R. 2023. Variation in Cantonese acceptability judgements due to language contact: An investigation of word order preferences in the resultative construction. Paper presented at the 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects (Yue 27), The Ohio State University, virtual, November 30–December 2. [abstract] [slides]

Leung, Justin. 2023. Setting {straight} the record {straight}: Acceptability of alternative word orders in resultatives by heritage Cantonese speakers. Paper presented at the 51st meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 51), Queens College, New York City, October 13–15. [abstract]

Diep, Brian, Douglas Quan, Justin Leung & Naomi Nagy. 2023. Variation in transcribing Heritage Cantonese. Paper presented at the 23nd Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-23), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, June 24. [slides]

Leung, Justin R. 2023. Deictic path elements in Cantonese directional motion constructions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), York University, Toronto, May 31–June 2. [abstract] [slides]

Leung, Justin R. 2022. Determining the syntactic categories of directional elements in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 22nd Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-22), University of Hong Kong, virtual, June 25.

Diep, Brian, Justin Leung & Naomi Nagy. 2022. 邊啲人[naːn²³]啲？ (n-/l-) in Cantonese in Hong Kong and Toronto. Paper presented at the Fifth Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-5), City University of Hong Kong, virtual, June 4.

Leung, Justin R. 2022. Given the sack, yet promoted: Passivizable V-IO-DO constructions in Cantonese. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), virtual, June 1–4. [abstract]

Leung, Justin, Brian Diep & Naomi Nagy. 2022. ‘Lazy pronunciation’ in Toronto Heritage Cantonese: The case of (n-/l-). Paper presented at the 6th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-6), The Ohio State University, virtual, May 27–28.

Leung, Justin. 2022. Ordering multiple adnominal adjectives in Lingala. Paper presented at the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Conference (MOTH), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, April 22–23. [slides]

Leung, Justin. 2021. Variation in path encoding in motion events in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. Paper presented at the 49th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 49), University of Texas at Austin, virtual, October 19–24. [video]

Leung, Justin. 2021. Variation in directional motion event expression in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. Paper presented at the 33rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 33), University of Chicago, virtual, June 24–25.

Lo, Roger Yu-Hsiang, Justin Leung & Angelika Kiss. 2021. Perceiving rhetorical questions in Cantonese. Paper presented at the Fourth Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-4), Hong Kong Baptist University, virtual, May 29.

Leung, Justin. 2021. Variation in directional motion event expression in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. Paper presented at the Fourth Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-4), Hong Kong Baptist University, virtual, May 29.

Leung, Justin. 2021. The structure of directional motion events in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 8th Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Conference (MOTH 8), McMaster University, virtual, April 19–20.

Kiss, Angelika, Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo, Justin Richard Leung & Maxime Alexandra Tulling. 2021. What do Cantonese sentence-final particles tell us about rhetorical questions?. Paper presented at the workshop on Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, virtual, February 4–5. [slides] [video]

Lo, Roger, Angelika Kiss & Justin Leung. 2021. Two types of rhetorical questions: Evidence from Cantonese prosody. Poster presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), virtual, January 7–10.

Troberg, Michelle & Justin Leung. 2020. On the uniform loss of Medieval French verb particles. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), virtual, May 30–June 1.

Leung, Justin. 2020. The unified loss of verb particles in Medieval French: a quantitative analysis. Paper presented at the 13th Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCON13), University of Toronto, Toronto, March 7–8.

Leung, Justin. 2020. The unified loss of verb particles in Medieval French: a quantitative analysis. Paper presented at the 7th Scarborough Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SULC), University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, February 28.