Journals

Tsai, C.-Y. E. (Accepted) Verb doubling in Mandarin and association with contrastive topic. Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

Huang, X., & C.-Y. E. Tsai. (2024) The sole relative marker. Language and Linguistics. 25(2), 318-350.

Tsai, C.-Y. E. (2021) Exhaustivity and bare numeral phrases in Mandarin. Language and Linguistics 22(1), 111-165.

Gan, T., & C.-Y. E. Tsai. (2020) The syntax of Mandarin dative alternation: An argument from quantifier scope interpretation. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7(2), 187-222.

Tsai, C.-Y. E. (2018) The syntax and semantics of descriptive V-de constructions: A primary predication analysis. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5(1), 59–93.

Scontras, G., M. Polinsky, C.-Y. E. Tsai, & K. Mai. (2017) Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity: When two systems meet. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1), 36.

Tsai, C.-Y. E. (2015) A note on Fukui's note. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 36(2), 69–80.

Edited volumes

Tsai, C.-Y. E. & K. N. Quang. (2019) Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh-indefinites in Vietnamese. In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, ed. by N. Duffield, T. Phan & T. Trinh, 181–212. John Benjamins.

Proceedings (refereed conferences)

(To appear) Free choice, discourse structure, and Mandarin dou. In Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.

(2019) Mandarin verb doubling clefts as contrastive topic constructions. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia 12 & SICOGG 21, ed. Sae-Youn Cho, 584–593.

Gan, T. & C.-Y. E. Tsai. (2019) Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin dative constructions. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia 12 & SICOGG 21, ed. Sae-Youn Cho, 458–466.

(2017) Preverbal number phrases in Mandarin and the scalar reasoning of jiu. In Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Aaron Kaplan et al., 554–561.

(2015) On a proper treatment of interrogative scope in Chinese wh-in-situ. In Proceedings of the 49th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 363–377.

(2015) Unifying Mandarin dou-constructions. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. Thuy Bui & Deniz Özyıldız, 165–174.

Tsai, C.-Y. E., G. Scontras, K. Mai, & M. Polinsky. (2014) Prohibiting inverse scope: An experimental study of Chinese vs. English. In Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10, ed. Christopher Piñón, 305–322.

Scontras, G., C.-Y. E. Tsai,  K. Mai, & M. Polinsky. (2014) Chinese Scope: an experimental investigation. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18, ed. U. Etxeberria, A. Fălăuș, A. Irurtzun, and B. Leferman, 396–414.

(2012) Descriptive complement constructions as concealed pseudoclefts in Chinese. In Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Jaehoon Choi et al., 259–267. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 

(2009) Wh-constructions in Saisiyat. In Current issues in unity and diversity of languages: Collection of the papers selected from the CIL-18, Linguistic Society of Korea, 2334–2348.

Working papers (refereed)

(2008) Wh-interrogatives in Saisiyat and Lexical Merger Parameter. In UST Working Papers in Linguistics 4, ed. by Xin-xian Rex Yu and Chia-yin Hu, 117–131. Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University.

Ph.D. dissertation 

(2015) Toward a Theory of Mandarin Quantification, Harvard University

Committee: C.-T. James Huang (Chair), Isabelle Charnavel, Shigeru Miyagawa, Maria Polinsky

M.A. thesis 

(2009) Wh-dependency in Vietnamese and the syntax of wh-in-situ, National Tsing Hua University (This is the revised version of 12/2009; original version 07/2009)

Committee: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (Advisor), Chinfa Lien, Jo-Wang Lin