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I am an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), University of Macau. I previously taught in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong (08/2016 - 05/2022). I was born and bred in Chiayi (嘉義), Taiwan.
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Email: cytsai [at] um.edu.mo
Education
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Harvard University
M.A. in Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University
Research interests
Research interests
semantics, pragmatics
Recent/upcoming activities (2026-)
Recent/upcoming activities (2026-)
"Flavors of emphatic exclusion: The case of Mandarin jìushì", The 27th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2026), Ludong University, 26–28 June
"Scalar readings of Mandarin haishi: Concessivity, additivity and temporal order", The 32nd Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 32), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 12–14 June.
"On the semantics of three 'seem'-type evidential phrases in Mandarin", The 32nd Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 32), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 12–14 June. [with Rui Li and Danning Zhuyan]
"安順方言持續體助詞"倒""起"的時間參照", 第十二屆方言語法博學論壇, Fudan University, 18 April [with Xinjunrong Huang]
"Non-disjunctive readings of the disjunctive connective haishi in Mandarin", The 5th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning (TLLM 2026), Tsinghua University, 5 April [with Xinjunrong Huang]
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