presentations

peer-reviewed presentations

2026

  1. Nanosyntactic insights on the historical morphology of Tibetic verbs
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Jul 2026
    Presentation at the 2nd ‘Distributed Morphology Meets Nanosyntax’ workshop, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
  2. Revitalising endangered languages and cultural heritage through language technology: A pilot study for Dzardzongke
    Hannah M Klaus, Songbo Hu, Emre Isik, Anna Korhonen, Kitty Wenying Liu, and Marieke Meelen
    Jul 2026
    Presentation at the Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9), at the Association for Computational Linguistics conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
  3. Investigating Classical Tibetan clause-chaining in a part-of-speech tagged corpus
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Mar 2026
    Part of the ‘Data in Historical Linguistics’ seminar series, King’s College London, UK.

2025

  1. Pragmaticalisation of the Speaker and Addressee in the history of Tibetan and Newar
    Marieke Meelen, Christian Faggionato, Kitty Wenying Liu, Liwen Liu, and Nathan W. Hill
    Mar 2025
    Presentation at the ‘Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes’ workshop, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
  2. Development of Tibetic verb paradigms: Diachronic and paradigm-based explanations
    Kitty Wenying Liu and Samuel Andersson
    Jan 2025
    Presentation at the Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

2023

  1. The development of zl in Tibetic languages: Assessing sound change pathways and functional load
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Apr 2023
    Presentation at the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain annual meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

invited talks

2026

  1. Phrasal spell-out for non-concatenative morphology: A Nanosyntactic attempt at the historical morphology of Tibetan verbs
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Jun 2026
    Talk at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, UK