Selected Publications
Research Monographs/Edited Volume:
Leung, T. T-C., Ntelitheos, D., & Al Kaabi, M. (2024). Basic Emirati Arabic: A Grammar/Workbook. Routledge. [link]
Ntelitheos, D., & Leung, T. (eds.) (2021). Experimental Arabic Linguistics. John Benjamins. [link]
Leung, T. T-C., Ntelitheos, D., & Al Kaabi, M. (2021). Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar. Routledge. [link]
Research Monographs (in preparation)
Leung, T. T-C (in prep). Issues on A’-dependencies: Studies from Emirati Arabic Syntax.
Leung, T. T-C (in prep). Occurrences in generative grammar.
Journals, Book Chapters and Proceedings (peer-reviewed):
Leung, T., Boush, F., & Kaabi, M. Reading spaced and unspaced texts in Arabic (under review).
Leung, T., Boush, F., Chen, Q., & Al Kaabi, M. (2021). Eye movements when reading spaced and unspaced texts in Arabic. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021). University of Vienna, Austria.
Ntelitheos, D. & Leung, T. (2021). Introduction: A review of Experimental Approaches to Arabic Linguistics. In Ntelitheos, D & Leung, T. T-C (eds.), Experimental Arabic Linguistics (p. 1-19). John Benjamins.
Marquis, A., Al Kaabi, M., Leung, T., & Boush, F. (2021). An eye-tracking study of phonological awareness. In Ntelitheos, D & Leung, T. T-C (eds.), Experimental Arabic Linguistics (p. 109-122). John Benjamins.
Gargett, A. & Leung, T. (2020). Building the Emirati Arabic FrameNet. In Torrent, T., Baker, C. F., Czulo, O., Ohara, K., & Petruck, M (eds.), Proceedings of the LREC International FrameNet Workshop 2020: Towards a Global, Multilingual FrameNet, ed. (pp. 70-76). European Language Resources Association.
Marquis, A., Al Kaabi, M., Leung, T., & Boush, F. (2020) What the eyes hear: An eye-tracking study on phonological awareness in Emirati Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology 11, 452. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00452
Leung, T. (2018). The syntax of two types of sluicing in Tamil. The Linguistic Review, 35, 35-82. doi: 10.1515/tlr-2017-0017
Leung, T & Halefom, G. (2017) The theory and syntactic representation of control structures: an analysis from Amharic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), 97. 1-33. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.277
Leung, T. (2015). Syntactic theory is also a metaphor. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1554. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01554
Leung, T. (2014). The preposition stranding generalization and conditions on sluicing: evidence form Emirati Arabic. Linguistic Inquiry 45: 332-340. [preprint]
Leung, T. (2013). Time is money: some syntactic arguments from Hong Kong Cantonese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 34: 129-149. [preprint]
Leung, T. (2014). Modes of interrogatives entail modes of sluicing - evidence from Emirati Arabic. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV-XXV, eds. Samira Farwaneh and Hamid Ouali. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 207-228. [preprint]
Leung, T. (2013). Generalizing the notion of ‘occurrence’, In Katherine McKinney-Bock and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (eds.), Primitive Elements of Grammatical Theory: Papers by Jean-Roger Vergnaud and His Collaborators. New York: Routledge. 92-122. [preprint]
Leung, T. (2014). Sluicing may repair LF-constraints. Proceedings of The Forty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS-48), University of Chicago, IL. [pdf]
Leung, T & Shemeili, A. (2014). Making the first step correct in syntax - Evidence from Emirati Arabic sluicing”. Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS-47), Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, IL. [pdf]
Leung, T & Al Eisaei, F. (2014). Wh-fronting and wh-cleft in Emirati Arabic. Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS-46), Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, IL. [pdf]
Leung, T. (2011) Mood feature as case licenser in Modern Standard Arabic. In Broselow, E & Ouali, H (eds.), Perspectives of Arabic Linguistics XXII-XXIII (p. 127-148). John Benjamins. [pdf]
Leung, T. (2010) On the mathematical foundations of crash-proof syntax.", In Michael. T. Putnam (ed.), Exploring Crash-Proof Grammar. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 213-44. [pdf]
Leung, T. (2010) “Wh-phrasal movement and the adjunction analysis of free relatives”, Proceedings of The Seventh GLOW in Asia Conference, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. 161-180. [pdf]
Leung, T. (2009) “On the matching requirement in correlatives,” In Liptak, A (ed.), Correlatives cross-linguistically (p. 309-342). John Benjamins. [pdf]
Leung, T. (2007). Phonology in syntax. In D-W. Lee (ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth Seoul International Conference of Generative Grammar (SICOGG-9) (p. 265-284), Kwangwoon University, Seoul.
Leung, T-C. (2007). Syntactic derivation and the theory of matching contextual features. Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. (321pp) [pdf]
Leung, T. (2007) Correlatives and the conditions on chain formation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Linguistics in Korea (ICLK 2007), Seoul National University, Seoul, KGGC.
Leung, T. (2005) “Free Relatives and their Implication for Cyclic Derivation,” In K. Choi and C. Yim (eds.), Proceedings of 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 7), Konkuk University, Seoul, KGGC, pp. 265-284.
Leung, T. (2004) “Thai ying and the syntax-semantics interface of comparative correlatives,” Proceedings of SEALS XIV, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Leung, T. (2003) The Iambic template hypothesis in Thai. Proceedings of SEALS XIII, University of California, Los Angeles.
Matthews, S & Leung. T. (2001) Verbal vs. nominal classifier construction in Thai and Cantonese. Proceedings of Eleventh Annual Meeting of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XI), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Leung, T. (2001) Reduplication in Cantonese/English code switching: The Emergence of the Unmarked in Optimality Theory,” In Proceedings of Twelfth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-12), San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.