Lisa Cheng
Hoogleraar Algemene taalwetenschap
- Naam
- Prof.dr. L.L. Cheng
- Telefoon
- +31 71 527 2104
- l.l.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0002-0350-5640
Lisa Cheng is Hoogleraar Algemene Taalwetenschap aan het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
Hoogleraar Algemene taalwetenschap
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Taalwetenschap
- Yang Y. , Pablos Robles L. & Cheng L.L. (2023), The processing mechanisms of Mandarin wh-questions, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 51(1): .
- Cheng L.L. (2022), Response particles hai6 in Cantonese, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 50(2): 532-544.
- Cheng L.L. & Cheng H. (2022), The structural sources for syllabic restrictions in Mandarin. London, U.K.: Queen Mary. [working paper].
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2022), Place and distance: locative expressions in Mandarin and Cantonese. In: Simpson A. (red.), New explorations in Chinese theoretical syntax: studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 77-109.
- Cheng L.L. & Griffiths J. (2021), The enduring discoveries of generative syntax. In: Allott N., Lohndal T. & Rey G. (red.), A Companion to Chomsky. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. 52-73.
- Cheng L.L. (2021), What-as-why sentences in Cantonese. In: Soare G. (red.) Why is 'why' unique?: Its syntactic and semantic properties. Studies in Generative Grammar nr. 142 Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 219-246.
- Cheng L.L. (2021), When factivity meets the conjoint/disjoint alternation, Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 62: 75-89.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2021), Recursion and the definition of universal prosodic categories, Languages 6(3): 125.
- Cheng L.L. & Yang Y. (2020), Experimental studies on theoretical linguistics, Modern Foreign Languages 43(6): 865-874.
- Schiller N.O., Boutonnet B.P.-A., De Heer Kloots M.L.S., Meelen M., Ruijgrok B.J. & Cheng L.L.-S. (2020), (Not so) Great Expectations: Listening to Foreign-Accented Speech Reduces the Brain’s Anticipatory Processes, Frontiers in Psychology 11: 2143.
- Gryllia S., Doetjes J.S., Yang Y. & Cheng L.L. (2020), Prosody, clause typing, and wh-in-situ: Evidence from Mandarin, Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 1-30 (19).
- Cheng L.L., Meelen M. & Mourigh K. (2020), V3 in Dutch urban varieties. In: Bárány A., Biberauer T., Douglas J. & Vikner S. (red.), Syntactic Architecture and Its Consequences II: between syntax and morphology. Open Generative Syntax nr. 10. Berlin: Language Science Press. 327-355.
- Huang C.T. & Cheng L.L. (2020), Revisiting donkey anaphora in Mandarin Chinese: A reply to Pan and Jiang (2015), International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7(2): 167-186.
- Yang Y., Gryllia S. & Cheng L.L. (2020), Wh-question or wh-declarative? Prosody makes the difference, Speech Communication 118: 21-32.
- Pablos Robles L., Doetjes J.S., Ruijgrok B.J. & Cheng L.L.S. (2019), Backward licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Dutch: an ERP investigation, Journal of Neurolinguistics 51(August 2019): 96-110.
- Cheng L.L. (2019), On the interaction between modals and aspects, English Linguistics 35(2): 241-260.
- Yang Y. & Cheng L.L. (2019), 汉语韵律的标句作用及其实验研究 : The role of prosody in Chinese clausal typing: an experimental study, Studies in Prosodic Grammar 4(1): 65-82.
- Bonet E., Cheng L.L., Downing L. & Mascaró J. (2019), (In)Direct reference in the phonology-syntax interface under phase theory: a response to Modular PIC, Linguistic Inquiry 50(4): 751-777.
- Yang Y., Gryllia S., Pablos Robles L. & Cheng L.L. (2019), Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin, International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6(1): 1-26.
- Pablos Robles L., Doetjes J. & Cheng Lisa L.-S. (2018), Backward Dependencies and in-Situ wh-Questions as Test Cases on How to Approach Experimental Linguistics Research That Pursues Theoretical Linguistics Questions, Frontiers in Psychology 8: 2237.
- Verbiest F., Cheng L.L.S., Iwaarden A. van & Verrips M. (2018), AThEME: Advancing the European Multilingual Experience, European Journal of Applied Linguistics 6(2): 337-343.
- Cheng L.L. (2017), Verb Copying. In: Sybesma R., Behr R., Gu Y., Handel Z., Huang C.T.J. & Myers J. (red.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics nr. 4 488-490.
- Cheng L.L. (2017), Donkey Anaphora. In: Sybesma R., Behr W., Gu Y., Handel Z., Huang C.T.J. & Myers J. (red.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics nr. 2. Leiden: Brill. 113-117.
- Cheng L.L. & Demirdache H. (2017), On covert movement: partially fronted wh vs. wh-in-situ. In: Halpert C., Kotek H. & Urk C. van (red.), A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics nr. 80: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 37-46.
- Cheng L.L., Heycock C. & Zamparelli R. (2017), Two levels for definiteness. Erlewine M.Y. (red.), Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI - Volume 1. GLOW in Asia XI 20 februari 2017 - 22 februari 2017. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics nr. 84 79-83.
- Reckman H., Cheng L.L., Hijzelendoorn P.M. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (2017), Crossroads Semantics. Computation, experiment and grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Cheng L.L. (2017), Wh-words, non-Interrogative Use of. In: Sybesma R., Behr W., Gu Y., Handel Z., Huang C.T.J. & Myers J. (red.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics nr. 4. Leiden: Brill. 539-543.
- Cheng L.L. (2017), Dōu 都. In: Sybesma R., Behr W., Gu Y., Handel Z., Huang C.T.J. & Myers J. (red.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics nr. 2. Leiden: Brill. 117-125.
- Cheng L.L. & Bayer J. (2017), Wh-in-situ. In: Everaert M. & Riemsdijk H.C. van (red.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. U.K.: Wiley Blackwell. 1-44.
- Ruijgrok B.J., Cremers C.L.J.M., Cheng L.L. & Schiller N.O. (2016), Processing ellipsis: electrophysiological signatures of retrieval and integration mechanisms [22nd Conference for Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMPLaP), September 1-3, 2016, Bilbao, Spain]. [conferentie poster].
- Gryllia S., Cheng L.L. & Doetjes J.S. (2016), On the intonation of French wh-in-situ questions: What happens before the wh-word is reached?, Speech Prosody 2016. Speech Prosody 2016 31 mei 2016 - 3 juni 2016.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2016), Phasal Syntax = Cyclic Phonology?, Syntax 19(2): 156-191.
- Ruijgrok B., Cremers C., Cheng L.L. & Schiller N.O. (2015), Electrophysiological evidence for recovery of meaning of elliptical sentences [Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), 15-17 October 2015, Chicago, USA]. [conferentie poster].
- Badan L. & Cheng L.L. (2015), Exclamatives in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 24: 383-413.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2015), Mandarin. In: Kiss T. & Alexiadou A. (red.), Syntax – Theory and Analysis. An international handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1518-1559.
- Pablos Robles L., Doetjes J.S., Ruijgrok B.J. & Cheng L.L. (2015), Active search for antecedents in cataphoric pronoun resolution, Frontiers in Psychology 6: 1-13.
- Ruijgrok B., Cremers C., Cheng L.L. & Schiller N.O. (2014), Recovery of meaning during reading: An event-related potential study on the processing of elliptical sentences [21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 5-8 April, 2014, Boston (MA), USA]. [conferentie poster].
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2014), The syntactic structure of noun phrases. In: Huang C.T. James, Li Y.H. Audrey & Simpson A. (red.), The handbook of Chinese linguistics. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. London: John Wiley & Sons. 248-274.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L. (2014), Indefinite subjects in Durban Zulu. Hamlaoui F. (red.), Preverbal domain in Bantu. . Berlin: ZAS.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2014), The problems of adverbs in Zulu. In: Caspers J., Chen Y., Heeren W.F.L., Pacilly J.J.A., Schiller N.O. & Zanten E.A. van (red.), Above and beyond the segments: experimental linguistics and phonetics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 42-59.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2014), Transitive psych-predicates. In: Li H.Y.A., Simpson A. & Tsai W.T.D. (red.), Chinese syntax in a cross-linguistic perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 207-228.
- Cheng L.L. & Corver N. (2013), Diagnosing Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2013), Clefts in Durban Zulu. In: Hartmann K. & Veenstra T. (red.), Cleft structures. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today nr. 208. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 141-163.
- Cheng L.L. & Corver N. (2013), Syntactic diagnostics in the study of human language. In: Cheng L.L.S. & Corver N. (red.), Diagnosing syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1-17.
- Cheng L.L. & Giannakidou A. (2013), The non-uniformity of wh-indeterminates with polarity and free choice in Chinese. In: Gil K., Harlow S. & Tsoulas G. (red.), Strategies of quantification. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 123-151.
- Cheng L.L. & Vicente L. (2013), Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 22(1): 1-37.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2012), Classifiers and DP, Linguistic Inquiry 43(4): 634-650.
- Cheng L.L. (2012), Counting and classifiers. In: Massam D. (red.), Count and mass across languages. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 199-219.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L. (2012), Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu. In: Kucerova I. & Neeleman A. (red.), Contrasts and positions in information structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 247-266.
- Cheng L.L., Doetjes J.S., Sybesma R.P.E. & Zamparelli R. (2012), On the interpretation of number and classifiers, Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 24(2): 175-194.
- Cheng L.L.-S & Vicente L. (2012), Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East-Asian Linguistics : .
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L. (2012), Prosodic domains do not match spell-out domains. In: , McGill Working Papers in Linguistics.
- Cheng L.L., Delfitto D. & Marten L. (2011), The structure and interpretation of nouns and noun phrases (part I): introduction, Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 23(2): 199-202.
- Di Sciullo A.M., Piattelli-Palmarini M., Wexler K., Berwick R.C., Boeckx C., Jenkins L., Uriagereka J., Stromswold K., Cheng L.L., Harley L., Wedel A., McGilvray J., Gelderen E. van & Bever T.G. (2010), The biological nature of human language, Biolinguistics 4(1): 4-34.
- Cheng L.L. (2010), Cantonese as a tense second language. In: Wouter J.W. & Vries M. de (red.), Structure preserved: studies in syntax for Jan Koster. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today nr. 164. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 73-79.
- Cheng L.L. & Demirdache H. (2010), Trapped at the edge: on long-distance pair-list readings, Lingua 120(3): 463-484.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2010), Locative relatives in Durban Zulu, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 53: 33-51.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2009), Where's the topic in Zulu?, The Linguistic Review 26(2-3): 207-238.
- Cheng L.L. (2009), Wh-in-situ, from the 1980s to now, Language and Linguistics Compass 3(3): 767-791.
- Cheng L.L. (2009), On every type of quantificational expression in Chinese. In: Rathert M. & Giannakidou A. (red.), Quantification, definiteness, and nominalization. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 53-75.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2009), De 的 as an underspecified classifier: first explorations, Yŭyánxué lùncóng 39: 1-19.
- Cheng L.L., Doetjes J.S. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2008), How universal is the Universal Grinder?, Linguistics in the Netherlands 25(1): 50-62.
- Cheng L.L. (2008), Deconstructing the shì … de construction, The Linguistic Review 25(3-4): 235-266.
- Cheng L.L. (2007), The autonomy of syntax. In: Groen A. in't, Jonge H.J. de, Papma H., Klasen E. & Slooten P. van (red.), Knowledge in ferment: dilemmas in science, scholarship and society. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 209-226.
- Cheng L.L. (2007), Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese. In: Corver N. & Nunes J. (red.), The copy theory of movement. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today nr. 107. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers. 151-174.
- Kula N.C. & Cheng L.L. (2007), Phonological and syntactic phrasing in Bemba relatives, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 28(2): 123-148.
- Cheng L.L. & Downing L.J. (2007), The prosody and syntax of Zulu relative clauses. Kula N. & Marten L. (red.), SOAS Working papers in linguistics. SOAS Conference on Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory 20 april 2006 - 22 april 2006 nr. 15. Londen: SOAS. 51-63.
- Cheng L.L. & Giannakidou A. (2006), (In)definiteness, polarity, and the role of wh-morphology in free choice, Journal of Semantics 23(2): 135-183.
- Cheng L.L. & Corver N. (2006), Lines of inquiry into Wh-Movement. In: Cheng L.L.-S. & Corver N. (red.), Wh-movement: moving on. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1-18.
- Sybesma R.P.E. & Cheng L.L. (2006), A Chinese relative. In: Broekhuis H., Corver N., Huybregts R., Kleinhenz U. & Koster J. (red.), Organizing grammar: linguistic studies in honour of Henk van Riemsdijk. Studies in Generative Grammar nr. 86. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 69-76.
- Cheng L.L. & Kula N.C. (2006), Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba relatives, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 43: 31-54.
- Cheng L.L. (2006), Decomposing Bantu Relatives. Deal A.R. (red.), NELS 36. The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 28 oktober 2006 - 30 oktober 2006. Amherst: UMass. 197-215.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2005), Classifiers in four varieties of Chinese. In: Cinque G. & Kayne R.S. (red.), The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 259-292.
- Reintges C.H., Lipták A.K. & Cheng L.L. (2005), The nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian. In: Kiss K.É. (red.), Universal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages. Studies in Generative Grammar nr. 83. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 105-136.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2004), Postverbal 'can' in Cantonese (and Hakka) and Agree, Lingua 114(4): 419-445.
- Cheng L.L. (2003), Wh-in-situ, Glot International 7(4): 103-109.
- Cheng L.L. (2003), Wh-in-situ, part II, Glot International 7(5): 129-137.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2003), Forked modality, Linguistics in the Netherlands 20(1): 13-23.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (2003), The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Berlijn: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Cheng L.L. & Rooryck J.E.C.V. (2000), Licensing Wh-in-situ, Syntax 3(1): 1-19.
- Cheng L.L. (2000), Moving just the feature. In: Lutz U., Mueller G. & Stechow A. von (red.), Wh-scope marking. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today nr. 37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 77-99.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (2000), The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Berlijn: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Cheng L.L., Huang C., Li Y.H.A. & Tang C. (1999), Hoo Hoo Hoo in Taiwanese. In: Ting P.H. (red.), Contemporary Studies on the Min Dialects. Berkeley: Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 146-203.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (1999), . Glot International.
- Sybesma R.P.E. & Cheng L.L. (1999), Bare and not so bare nouns and the structure of NP, Linguistic Inquiry 30(4): 509-542.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (1998), . Glot International.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (1998), Yi-wan Tang, yi-ge Tang: Classifiers and Massifiers, Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies XXVIII(3): 385-412.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (1998), On dummy objects and the transitivity of run. Bezooijen R. van & Kager R. (red.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998. . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 81-93.
- Cheng L.L. (1997), On the Typology of Wh-questions. New York/Londen: Garland Publishing.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (1997), . Glot International.
- Cheng L.L. (1997), "Partial" Wh-movement, UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 3: 27-50.
- Cheng L.L., Huang C. & Tang C. (1997), Negative Particle Questions: a dialectal comparison, Journal of Chinese Linguistics : .
- Cheng L.L. (1997), Resultative Compounds and Lexical Relational Structures, Chinese Languages and Linguistics III: Morphology and Lexicon : 167-197.
- Cheng L.L., Huang C., Li Y. & Tang C. (1997), Causative Compounds across Chinese Dialects: a study of Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese. In: , Chinese Languages and Linguistics IV: Typological Studies of Languages in China. Taiwan: Academia Sinica. 199-224.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (1996), . Glot International.
- Cheng L.L. & Huang C. (1996), Two types of donkey sentences, Natural Language Semantics 4(2): 121-163.
- Cheng L.L., Huang C. & Tang C. (1996), Negative Particle Questions, a dialectal comparison. In: Black J.R. & Motapanyane V. (red.), Microparametric Syntax and dialectal Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 41-78.
- Cheng L.L. & Sybesma R.P.E. (red.) (1995), . Glot International.
- Cheng L.L. (1995), On Dou-quantification, Journal of East-Asian Linguistics 4: 197-234.
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