Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee is
involved.
Title
The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes… read moreArticles
This paper investigates the high position of root modals (such as keyi ‘may’) in Chinese, and its interaction with focus interpretations. We address a long-standing puzzle concerning their position: A-not-A questions appear to exceptionally license an otherwise unavailable high position of root… read more A recent line of research concerns how an existential claim is bundled with a modal component — in particular, one relating to speakers’ ignorance — in the nominal domain. The primary focus of this paper is to discuss a case of epistemic indefinites in Cantonese which takes the form of m-zi-WH… read more 
