Peppina Po-lun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. She has published more than forty single-authored/co-authored research papers in refereed journals and edited books. Major publications appeared in Lingua, Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Linguistics, as well as ZhongguoYuwen (Studies of the Chinese Language) and Dangdai Yuyanxue (Contemporary Linguistics). Specializing in theoretical linguistics, her research interests cover semantics, syntax-semantics interface, Chinese and Cantonese linguistics. She has worked on a variety of research topics, including focus and information structure, negation, eventuality, quantification and particles.