Lawrence Y L Cheung

Biographic Data

ID6720295
NAMELawrence Y L Cheung
GIVEN NAMESLawrence Y L
FAMILY NAMECheung
SIGNATURECHEUNG L Y L
AFFILIATIONSChinese University of Hong Kong
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Partitivity and referentiality constraint

    Open AccessYenan Sun, Lawrence Y L Cheung et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2026

    We present a formal analysis of an understudied postverbal completive marker - le in Mandarin, distinct from the perfective - le . We propose that completive - le forces strict telicity via maximal affectedness of the theme. Building on degree-based approaches, we show that - le interacts with a covert partitive operator to link event progress to both the extent of the theme and an abstract path scale. This analysis explains the marker’s unique r…

  • Stakeholder concerns of air pollution in Hong Kong and policy implications

    Open AccessJacqueline C K Lam, Lawrence Y L Cheung et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2019Cited by: 3References: 6

  • Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese–English bilingual children

    Open AccessHaoyan Ge, Stephen Matthews et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2017

    This corpus-based study demonstrates a case of bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of right-dislocation by Cantonese–English bilingual children and interprets the results in relation to Hulk and Müller’s hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence. Longitudinal data reveal qualitative and quantitative differences between bilingual and monolingual children in the development of right-dislocation in English and Cantonese. Whil…

  • Uttering the unutterable with wh-placeholders

    Open AccessLawrence Y L Cheung, Lawrence Y-L CheungARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2015

  • Dislocation focus construction in Chinese

    Open AccessLawrence Y L Cheung, Lawrence Yam-leung CheungARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2009

    The use of the Dislocation Focus Construction (DFC) (also known as “Right Dislocation”) in colloquial Chinese (including Cantonese and Mandarin) gives rise to various non-canonical word orders. In DFCs, the sentence particle (SP) occurs in a sentence-medial position. The pre- and post-SP materials are demonstrated to be syntactically connected, based on four diagnostic tests, namely (i) the zinghai ‘only’ test, (ii) the doudai (“wh-the-hell”) tes…

  • Negative wh-construction and its semantic properties

    Open AccessLawrence Y L Cheung, Lawrence Yam-leung CheungARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2009