Esther Lam
Email: esther.lam@ed.ac.uk
Conference presentations:
The 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56) --- 17-19 Oct 2025
Two copulas and two types of specificational clauses in Cantonese
58th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea --- 26-29 Aug 2025
Cantonese pseudocleft-like sentences
TripleAFLA --- 8 Jun- 1 Jul 2022
In/definite Classifier-Noun Phrases in Nung (Tai language spoken in Vietnam)
31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society --- 18-20 May 2022
"Bare classifiers” in Nung (a Tai language of Vietnam)
11th International Conference of Construction Grammar --- 18-21 Aug 2021
Nominal grounding in a classifier language: a case study of Nung (a Tai-Kadai language),
Forum on Cantonese Linguistics --- 29 May 2021
Cantonese bare classifiers as iota
Publications:
Lam, E. (2023). Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung. Functions of Language.
Lam, E. (2023). Definiteness of classifier-noun phrases in Nung. Proceedings of TripleAFLA: 9th TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers, 29th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 32-43
Research
I carry out ongoing linguistic fieldwork on Nung (Tai). My fieldwork data is available here