Esther Lam
Email: esther.lam@ed.ac.uk
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh.
I specialize in topics related to the noun phrase. I am particularly interested in classifier languages in Southeast Asia. My PhD focuses on the semantics of Classifier-Noun phrases in Nung (a Tai language in Vietnam).
Research
My Nung fieldwork data is available here
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
Conference presentations:
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