Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
Biographic Data
| ID | 950890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wei-Tien Dylan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsai |
| SIGNATURE | TSAI W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Tsing Hua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6784-5070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Traversing the “where” landscape: Vietnamese đâu and the clausal architecture of Vietnamese
A comparative study of how and why in Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese
From looking into the same and different properties of how and why between Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese, this paper aims to explain the post-verbal how construction with negative speaker attitude. Based on our observations and findings of the specific usages of sī and leh , we propose an analysis for the construction in question. According to our analysis, this construction is not a simple product of a single element, but a compositio…
Left periphery and how-why alternations
Object specificity in Chinese: A view from the vP periphery
This article deals with an indicative-modal asymmetry in Chinese, where a variety of specificity effects are found in fronted object indefinites. To provide a coherent solution under the cartographic approach (Rizzi 1997, Cinque 1999), we propose that there are two types of landing sites for Chinese object fronting: The outer focus position is in the left periphery, and occupied by a specific nominal. By contrast, the inner focus position is loca…
Cartography and licensing of wh-adjuncts: A cross-linguistic perspective
Tense anchoring in Chinese
Two types of wh -adverbials: A typological study of how and why in Tsou
This paper presents cross-linguistic arguments for distinguishing between two types of wh -adverbials: causal how , causal why , and epistemic why pattern together in taking an IP scope, functioning as operators, whereas method how , manner how , and purpose why pattern together in taking a VP scope, functioning as predicates of underlying events. For the former group, there is always a cause-effect relation underpinning their syntactic distribut…
On Subject Specificity and Theory of Syntax-Semantics Interface
On object specificity
[W]e have demonstrated that the object specificity follows from the same principle as the subject specificity under the EMH. Furthermore, the semantic discrepancy between the realis and irrealis object shift constructions turns out to be a subcase of the more general indicative-modal asymmetry. Although our analysis presented here is nothing but conclusive, it does suggest that the EMH is a potent candidate for explaining the indicative-modal asy…
On Lexical Courtesy
Visibility, complement selection and the case requirement of CP
On nominal islands and LF extraction in Chinese
On nominal islands and LF extraction in Chinese
Visibility, complement selection and the case requirement of CP
On Lexical Courtesy
On Subject Specificity and Theory of Syntax-Semantics Interface
On object specificity
[W]e have demonstrated that the object specificity follows from the same principle as the subject specificity under the EMH. Furthermore, the semantic discrepancy between the realis and irrealis object shift constructions turns out to be a subcase of the more general indicative-modal asymmetry. Although our analysis presented here is nothing but conclusive, it does suggest that the EMH is a potent candidate for explaining the indicative-modal asy…
Two types of wh -adverbials: A typological study of how and why in Tsou
This paper presents cross-linguistic arguments for distinguishing between two types of wh -adverbials: causal how , causal why , and epistemic why pattern together in taking an IP scope, functioning as operators, whereas method how , manner how , and purpose why pattern together in taking a VP scope, functioning as predicates of underlying events. For the former group, there is always a cause-effect relation underpinning their syntactic distribut…
Left periphery and how-why alternations
Object specificity in Chinese: A view from the vP periphery
This article deals with an indicative-modal asymmetry in Chinese, where a variety of specificity effects are found in fronted object indefinites. To provide a coherent solution under the cartographic approach (Rizzi 1997, Cinque 1999), we propose that there are two types of landing sites for Chinese object fronting: The outer focus position is in the left periphery, and occupied by a specific nominal. By contrast, the inner focus position is loca…
Cartography and licensing of wh-adjuncts: A cross-linguistic perspective
Tense anchoring in Chinese
A comparative study of how and why in Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese
From looking into the same and different properties of how and why between Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese, this paper aims to explain the post-verbal how construction with negative speaker attitude. Based on our observations and findings of the specific usages of sī and leh , we propose an analysis for the construction in question. According to our analysis, this construction is not a simple product of a single element, but a compositio…
Traversing the “where” landscape: Vietnamese đâu and the clausal architecture of Vietnamese
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Syntax (5 works) · Comparative linguistics (4 works)