I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics) as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester (Linguistics and English Language Department).

Please visit my personal website for more information about my research and teaching background.

Publications

Refereed journal articles and peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers

2025. Revisiting two finiteness phenomena for Mandarin Chinese complementation structures: An empirically oriented approach via systematic hypothesis testing. Transactions of the Philological Society. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12317

2024. Control, Inner Topicalisation, and Focus Fronting in Mandarin Chinese: Modelling in Parallel Constraint-based Grammatical Architecture. Journal of Language Modelling, 12(1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v12i1.365

2023. Copy Control and Partial Raising at Syntax-Semantics-Discourse Interfaces. In The Proceedings of the LFG’23 Conference, edited by Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay, and Ida Toivonen, 158-175. PubliKon, University of Konstanz.

2022. Rethinking Restructuring in Mandarin Chinese: Empirical Properties, Theoretical Insights, and LFG/XLE Computational Implementation. In The Proceedings of the LFG’22 Conference, edited by Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay, and Ida Toivonen, 203-22. CSLI Publications, Stanford University.

2021. A Constraint-Based Approach to Anaphoric and Logophoric Binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. In The Proceedings of the LFG’21 Conference, edited by Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay, and Ida Toivonen, 202–22. CSLI Publications, Stanford University.

2020. Inter-Sentential Code-Switching and Language Dominance in Cantonese–English Bilingual Children. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 2 (1): 73–105. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.13308. (with Stephen Matthews)

New manuscripts/preprints (Comments are welcome!)

Lam, Chit-Fung & Mary Dalrymple. Submitted. Copy control and other control properties in Mandarin.