cytsai@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8930
Office
E21-4106
Consultation Hours
Monday 14:00-15:00
Thursday 14:00-15:00
TSAI, Cheng-Yu Edwin
Introduction
Edwin Tsai is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Before joining the University of Macau in June 2022, he served as a College Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University (2015-2016) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong (2016-2022).
Education
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, Harvard University (2010-2015)
- M.A. in Linguistics, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2006-2009)
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (2002-2006)
Research Interests
The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of quantification, focus, polarity-sensitive items, scope ambiguity, (wh-)indefinites, and predicate doubling.
- Huang, Xinjunrong, and Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai. Accepted. The sole relative marker. Language and Linguistics.
- Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin. 2021. Exhaustivity and bare numeral phrases in Mandarin. Language and Linguistics 22(1), 111–165.
- Gan, Tian, and Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai. 2020. The syntax of Mandarin dative alternation: An argument from quantifier scope interpretation. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7(2), 187–222.
- Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin, and Kim Ngọc Quang. 2019. Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh-indefinites in Vietnamese. In N. Duffield, T. Phan & T. Trinh (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, 181–212. John Benjamins.
- Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin. 2018. The syntax and semantics of descriptive V-de constructions: A primary predication analysis. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5(1), 59–93.
- Scontras, Gregory, Maria Polinsky, C.-Y. Edwin Tsai, and Kenneth Mai. 2017. Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity: When two systems meet. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1), 36.
- Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin. 2015. A note on Fukui’s note. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 36(2), 69–80.