Ka-Fai Yip 葉家煇

linguistics & cats

Manuscripts

(Comments are welcome!)

  1. A unified biclausal approach to right dislocation in Chinese. Resubmitted, Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

  2. Partial deletion on head chains: Discontinuous predicates in Cantonese. Submitted, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]

  3. A quantifier-particle approach to exclusive focus particles in Yorùbá. Submitted, Contemporary African Linguistics. [with Olabode Adedeji]

  4. Differentiating between evidential bias and epistemic bias in questions: Evidence from Cantonese. Submitted, Language and Linguistics.

  5. Separable verbs in Cantonese. Submitted, The Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics.. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]

  6. Inner aspect in Cantonese. Submitted, FLaP FIRST.

  7. Again, split aspect and finiteness in Chinese languages. [with Yuyang Liu]

  8. Defocus Rephrasing: right dislocation and syntax-prosody mapping. In prep. [with Xuetong Yuan]

  9. An agreement analysis of temporal converbs. In prep.

  10. Merging operators in conditional clauses in wh-in-situ languages. In prep. [with Zhuo Chen]

Publications

Forthcoming

  1. Only ‘only’ only: A distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling. To appear in Proceedings of SALT-34.

  2. Agreeing with ‘only’. To appear in Proceedings of WCCFL-41.

  3. Linguistic and social aspects of sibilant palatalization in homeland and heritage Cantonese. To appear in Proceedings of NACCL-36. [with Yanting Li, Xiao Dong & Gareth Junjie Yang]

  4. 線上問答遊戲「廣東話達人挑戰」：遊戲化科普與眾包式數據收集[Online Quiz Game “Cantonese Master Challenge”: Gamifying Linguistics Popularization and Crowdsourced Data Collection]. Accepted by Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities. [with Yik-Po Lai, , Mei-ying Ki, Chaak-ming Lau, Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee, Oscar Wong, Kam Pang Wong]

2024

  1. Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 42(4): 1527-1578. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]

  2. Right dislocation, defocus, and variations in syntax-prosody mapping. In Phonological Externalization (Vol. 9), 89-112. [with Xuetong Yuan]

  3. Defocus leads to syntax-prosody mismatches in right-dislocated structures. Proceedings of CLS-59, 557-571. [with Xuetong Yuan]

  4. Two types of temporal adverbial clauses in Cantonese. Proceedings of WCCFL-39, 274–282.

  5. Agreement in imperative clauses: Evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of NELS-54, vol.2, 235–244. [with Xuetong Yuan]

  6. Some prosodic consequences of varied discourse functions in a Cantonese sentence-final particle. Speech Prosody 2024, 632-636. [with Jonathan Him Nok Lee, Mark Liberman & Jianjing Kuang]

2023

  1. Are there “weak” definites in bare classifier languages?. SALT-33, 253–275. [with Ushasi Banerjee & Margaret Chui Yi Lee]

  2. Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns and partial Copy Deletion. UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 29(1): 206–215. [with Comfort Ahenkorah]

  3. (In)dependence of features on composite probes. Proceedings of NELS-53, vol.2, 155–164. [with Magdalena Lohninger]

  4. High vs. low ‘again’: Mandarin you vs. zai and Cantonese -faan vs. -gwo. BEAL-7, 94-104. [with Yuyang Liu] [lingbuzz]

2022

  1. Converbs and adverbial clauses: a case study in Cantonese. In Studies in Chinese Linguistics 43(2): 143-169. [lingbuzz]

  2. Unversal concord as syntactic agreement. UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 28(1): 221-232. [lingbuzz]

  3. Discontinuous predicates as partial deletion in Cantonese. UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 28(1): 26-36. [with Sheila Shu-Laam Chan & Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee] [lingbuzz]

  4. Modal movement licensed by focus. In New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in Honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, 165-192. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee] [lingbuzz]

2021

  1. Raising, Phase Unlocked. In WCCFL-38, 274-282. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee] [lingbuzz]

  2. Deriving Separable Verbs in Cantonese. In BEAL-5, 94-104. [with Sheila Shu-Laam Chan & Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]

2020

  1. Syntax-prosody mapping of right-dislocations in Cantonese and Mandarin. In Phonological Externalization (Vol. 5), 73-90. [lingbuzz]

  2. A corpus-based comparative study of light verbs in three Chinese speech communities. In PACLIC-34, 302-311. [with Benjamin K. Tsou]

  3. Generalized Scope Economy. In NACCL-32, 345-360. [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]

  4. Bilingual multi-word expressions, multiple-correspondence, and their cultivation from parallel patents: the Chinese-English case. In PACLIC-34, 589-602. [with Benjamin K. Tsou, Ka Po Chow, John Lee, Yaxuan Ji & Kevin Wu]

  5. 粵語動詞後綴“親”的三個框式結構[Three discontinuous constructions of Cantonese verbal suffix can] (written in Chinese). Current Research in Chinese Linguistics 99(1):153-169.

MPhil thesis