Siming Liu

About me

I am Siming LIU (柳思铭[ljow˨˩.s̩˥.mjɤŋ˧˥]), a second-year master student in the Department of Linguistics at Beijing Language and Culture University.

My research interest mainly lies in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and morphology. Some of my specific interests include phrasal movement, A/A'-distinction, locality constraints, linearization, the structure of nominal phrases and definiteness. Currently I am exploring cross-linguistic non-nominal movements which exhibit A-properties.

Besides the above theoretical issues, I am also interested in understudied languages in China as well as around the world.

Siming Liu

Presentations

Conference presentations

Revisiting Mandarin Chinese VP-fronting: Insights for a unified theory of phrasal movement

ConSOLE34

Jan 2026

Poster

Properties and Functions of Sentence-final bare de and le2 in Mandarin and their interaction

ICFL-11

May 2025

CV

[Click here] (Updated in Feb 2026)

Contact-info

Personal E-mail: wiadraliu [at] gmail [dot] com

Institution E-mail: 202421198396 [at] stu [dot] blcu [dot] edu [dot] cn