Research

,,ვნების სიმძაფრე შენებაშია და არა აშენებულით ტკბობაში’’ — გურამ რჩეულიშვილი
“The intensity of passion lies in the act of building, not in the enjoyment of what is built.” — Guram Rcheulishvili

Publications

Bondarenko, Tatiana, Jacob Fernandes, Kaden Holladay and Richard Luo (forthcoming). Interpreting Clausal Movement. [link]

Luo, Richard (2026). When is ‘or not’ required in an embedded polar question? Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 11 (1): 6095. [link]

Luo, Richard (2025). Two flavors of control in Georgian: decide and try. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) [Volume II], 99–108. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. [link]

Bondarenko, Tatiana, Richard Luo and Vincent Rouillard (2024). Thinking statively and dynamically: a view from Georgian. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024. [link]

Conference Presentations

Luo, Richard (2026). A Goldilocks dilemma for clause size: nominalization and finiteness in Georgian. Talks given at the Salzburg Comparative Syntax (SalCoS) Workshop and CauLaGeNet Workshop. [handout available upon request]

Luo, Richard (2026). The duality of Georgian masdars: complex heads vs. phrasal layering. Poster presented at the Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW). [poster]

Luo, Richard and Natasha Thalluri (2026). Choice functions and alternatives: two classes of Georgian wh-indefinites. Talk given at the 62th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 62). [slides]

Luo, Richard (2026). When is ‘or not’ required in an embedded polar question? Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2026 Annual Meeting. [poster] [supplementary material]

Luo, Richard (2025). I wonder if Georgian can tell us how tu embed(s) questions? Talk given at the South Caucasian Chalk Circle 4 (SCCC-4). [slides available upon request]

Luo, Richard and Natasha Thalluri (2025). Scope variability in two classes of Georgian indefinite pronouns. Talk given at Caucasian linguistics: recent advances and emerging topics.

Bondarenko, Tatiana, Richard Luo and Vincent Rouillard (2024). Thinking statively and dynamically: a view from Georgian. Poster and lightning talk given at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024.

Luo, Richard (2024). Two flavors of control in Georgian: decide and try. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55). [poster]

Luo, Richard (2024). Probing the existence of degree abstraction in Mandarin bi-comparatives. Talk given at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS). [handout available upon request]