Ryan Ka Yau Lai

Dados Biográficos

ID737467
NOMERyan Ka Yau Lai
PRENOMESRyan Ka Yau
SOBRENOMELai
ASSINATURALAI R K Y
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0001-6478-0649
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
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  • Medieval Chinese zì as a flexible phasal adverb

    Ryan Ka Yau LaiARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2025

    In Early Medieval Chinese, 自 zì came to convey ideas related to phasal polarity. This paper describes how zì expresses three meanings: unexpectedly early already , unexpectedly late still , and the idea that a positive phase at reference time began earlier than expected. These uses are argued to derive from an abstract phase extension meaning: zì denies the occurrence of a change of state, causing the situation to hold true for a more extended pe…

  • Beyond anaphoric and emphatic

    Ryan Ka Yau LaiARTICLEFolia Linguistica2024

    In this paper, I examine the Literary Chinese reflexive zì , which exhibits a crosslinguistically uncommon pattern: it performs both anaphoric and emphatic uses in adverbial position. I show that it has several uses: signalling coreference between the subject and the object, the object’s possessor or the topic or focus of a complement clause, emphasising that the subject’s identity, and indicating that the event affected the subject itself or had…

  • Rethinking the Description and Typology of Cantonese Causative-Resultative Constructions

    Open AccessRyan Ka Yau Lai, Michelle Man-Long PangARTICLELanguages2023Referências: 30

    This article proposes a new description of Cantonese causative-resultative constructions (CRCs), constructions with two verbal elements relevant to the cause and the effect of an event respectively. We present a constructional schema for the CRC with three argument types and without using traditional categories-such as subject, object and pseudo-passivation, present various syntactic and semantic properties, and subsume constructions such as the …

  • Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals

    Open AccessYoonsang Song, Ryan Ka Yau LaiARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2022

    The current study explores the nature of constituent-structure-independent structural priming across the two languages of bilinguals. Specifically, this study tests whether such cross-linguistic priming involves the priming of functional-level syntactic representations shared between the languages, which can be distinguished from the priming of mainly non-syntactic information (e.g., information structure, thematic-role order). Critical prime sen…

  • Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance

    Youngah Do, Ryan Ka Yau LaiARTICLELanguage2021

  • Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance

    Open AccessYoungah Do, Ryan Ka Yau LaiARTICLELanguage2021Citada por: 1

    Methods of quantifying distance between sound sequences are known as phonological distance measures. Despite the wide application across subfields, phonological distance has been calculated mainly with features related to consonants and vowels. This research report establishes new measurements of phonological distance that incorporate lexical tone through experimental approaches and modeling, using Hong Kong Cantonese as a case study. Results sho…

  • Incorporating tone in the modelling of wordlikeness judgements

    Open AccessYoungah Do, Ryan Ka Yau LaiARTICLEPhonology2020

    Various phonotactic models have been proposed for the prediction of wordlikeness judgements, most of which have focused primarily on segments. This article aims to model wordlikeness judgements when tone is incorporated. We first show how the two major determinants of wordlikeness judgements, i.e. phonotactic probability and neighbourhood density, can be measured when tone is involved. To test the role of the two determinants of wordlikeness judg…