Welcome!

I am a linguist working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow National University of Singapore, after having completed my PhD in Linguistics at McGill University, under the supervision of Junko Shimoyama, Lisa Travis, and Jessica Coon. My main research interests lie with Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, and how it can inform our understanding of syntax and semantics.

My dissertation investigates the structure and distribution of A’-dependencies (relative clauses, wh-questions, etc.) in Tagalog by considering a wider ranged of data than in previous work.

My work primarily draws on elicitation and fieldwork data from native speaker (and my own) judgements, but I am always on the lookout for ways to incorporate larger amounts of data using experimental and/or computational methods.

You can contact me via email at henrison [dot] hsieh [at] polyu [dot] edu [dot] hk.

Recent and upcoming

• November 2023: My paper entitled Observations on Tagalog Genitive Extraction has been published in Oceanic Linguistics
• March 2023: My paper entitled Locality in Exceptional Tagalog A’-extraction is now available as a "Just Accepted" an “Early Access” paper through Linguistic Inquiry
• March 2022: I have joined the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at Hong Kong PolyU, working under Prof. Yu-Yin Hsu

Last updated: Dec 2023