Accept. Yenan Sun and Jackie Yan-Ki Lai. Demonstratives and Mandarin relative types. Journal of Linguistics.
2025. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai and Xiaoli Sun. Cartography and the stackability of Mandarin modals. Journal of Linguistics.
2024. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai. Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
2024. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai, Lawrence Yam-Leung Cheung and Yenan Sun. The resumptive view of the Cantonese dummy keoi5 revisited. Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
2024. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai. Cantonese dislocation: Parallel chains or cyclic linearization? Syntax.
2023. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai and Haoming Li. Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
2019. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai. Parallel copying in dislocation copying: Evidence from Cantonese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
2019 Yenan Sun and Jackie Yan-Ki Lai. The morphosyntax of Chinese adjectival reduplication: The role of RED. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49), 203-210. Volume Three.
2019 Pui Yiu Szeto, Jackie Yan-Ki Lai and Umberto Ansaldo. Creole typology is analytic typology. Language Ecology.
2018 Jackie Yan-Ki Lai and Yenan Sun. On apparent parasitic gaps in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 20), 195-199.
2016. Jackie Yan-Ki Lai. A DM analysis of simple and complex V-O compounds in Mandarin Chinese. Studies in Generative Grammar.
2015. Umberto Ansaldo, Jackie Lai, Fanlu Jia, Wai-ting Siok, Li-hai Tan and Stephen Matthews. Neural basis for processing hidden complexity indexed by small and finite clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics.