Hewei Liu

Publications

Liu, H. (2026). Reconstructing the Verbal Morphology of Written Jurchen: A Corpus-Based Analysis with Tungusic Comparative Insights. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2026.00615

Liu, H. (2026). Irregularity correlates with frequency, concreteness, and low contextual uncertainty: a corpus-based study of English verb paradigms. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2026-0011

 

Conference Presentations

June 2026. “Irregularity Correlates with Frequency, Concreteness, and Low Contextual Uncertainty: A Corpus-Based Study of English Verb Paradigms.” Day of Swiss Linguistics, Lugano, Switzerland.

March 2026. “Mapping Connectivity in Construction Networks: A Corpus-Driven Proof of Concept.” SWELL 2026, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (with Ben Chadi Youssef and Martin Hilpert).

July 2025. “Measuring Morphological Irregularity without Manual Segmentation.” Corpus Linguistics 2025, Birmingham, UK.

May 2024. “A Method for Measuring Morphological Irregularity Based on Paradigmatic Analogies: Taking French Verbs as an Example.” The 16th Peking University Graduate Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing, China.

Function

Doctorant FNS

Contact

hewei.liu@unine.ch

Office 2.E.43

Area of expertise

  • Corpus and quantitative methods in linguistics
  • Construction grammar
  • Historical linguistics
  • Language typology
  • Knowledge of some historical and minority languages