Esther Lam

Email: esther.lam@ed.ac.uk

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh working on the SynCop project.

I specialise in topics related to the noun phrase. I am particularly interested in classifier languages in Southeast Asia.

My PhD thesis is available here

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

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