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Journal Papers

  1. 张钦良、谢明燊 (將刊) “粤语语气词的句法位置辨识” 《方言》[初稿Acrobat icon]
    Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. and Crono M. S. Tse. (to appear/2016) Diagnosing the Syntactic Positions of Sentence-Final Particles in Cantonese. Fangyan.

  2. 張欽良、謝明燊 (2018) “如何界定句末語氣詞句法位置？” 《中國語文通訊》(第二十屆國際粵方言研討會特刊), 第97卷, 第1期（2018年1月）p. 169--177. Acrobat icon

  3. Ge, Haoyan, Stephen Matthews, Lawrence Y. L. Cheung and Virginia Yip. (2017) “Bi-directional Cross-linguistic Influence in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: The Case of Right-Dislocation.” First Language 37(3): 231-251. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723716687955]

  4. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. and Longtu Zhang. (2016) “Determinants of the Synthetic–Analytic Variation Across English Comparatives and Superlatives.” English Language and Linguistics 20(3): 559-583. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000368]

  5. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. (2015) “Bi-clausal Sluicing Approach to Dislocation Copying in Cantonese.” International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2(2): 227-272. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.2.2.03che | http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002608]

  6. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. (2015) “Uttering the Unutterable with Wh-placeholders.” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 24(3): 271-308. (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10831-014-9130-x) | (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002031)

  7. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. (2009) "The negative wh-construction and its semantic properties." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 18(4): 297-321. [DOI: 10.1007/s10831-009-9051-2] pre-final versionAcrobat icon

  8. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. (2009) "Dislocation focus construction in Chinese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 18(3): 197-232. [DOI: 10.1007/s10831-009-9046-z] Acrobat icon [Open Access]

  9. Tsou, B. K., T. B. Y. Lai, K. K. Sin and L. Y. L. Cheung. (2006) "Court Stenography-To-Text ("STT") in Hong Kong: A Jurilinguistic Engineering Effort." International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages 19 (2-3): 99-107 (June & September 2006).

  10. Cheung, L. Y. L. (2006) “On Certain (Non-)Violations of Coordinate Structure Constraints.” Snippets 12 (online journal: Acrobat icon).

  11. Luk, P., Benjamin K. Tsou, Tom B. Y. Lai, O. Y. Kwong, Francis C. Y. Chik and Lawrence Y. L. Cheung. (2003) Bilingual Legal Document Retrieval and Management Using XML. Software--Practice & Experience 33(1): 41-59. [DOI: 10.1002/spe.494] (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.494/abstract)

Thesis

  • Cheung, L. Y. L. (2008) The Negative Wh-Construction. PhD dissertation, UCLA. Committee members: Daniel Buring (co-chair), Anoop Mahajan (co-chair), Tim Stowell, Andrew Simpson (USC) Acrobat icon [slightly edited version of the submitted dissertation]

  • Cheung, L. Y. L. (2005) Syntax and Semantics of Dislocation Focus Construction in Cantonese. MA thesis, UCLA. Committee members: Tim Stowell (chair), Daniel Buring, Anoop Mahajan Acrobat icon

  • Cheung, L. Y. L. (1997) A Study of Right Dislocation in Cantonese. MPhil thesis, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Committee members: Thomas Lee (supervisor), Yang Gu, Virginia YipAcrobat icon


Proceedings Papers and Book Chapters

2011

  • Chan, Samuel W. K., Mickey W. C. Chong and Lawrence Y. L. Cheung. (2011) "An Analysis of Tree Topological Features in Classifier-Based Unlexicalized Parsing." Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6608/2011, 155-170. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19400-9_13]

  • Cheung, Lawrence. (2011) "The Syntactic Manifestation of the Nuclear Stress Rule in Cantonese." Proceedings of the 28th WCCFL 2010. USC, Los Angeles. Feb 19-21, 2010. [Acrobat iconabstract / Acrobat iconpaper 1 / paper 2 ]

2010

  • Chan, Samuel W. K., Lawrence Y. L. Cheung and Mickey W. C. Chong. (2010) "A Machine Learning Parser Using an Unlexicalized Distituent Model." Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2010). [Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science] [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_11] Acrobat icon

  • Chan, Samuel, Lawrence Cheung and Mickey Chong. (2010) "Tree Topological Features for Unlexicalized Parsing." Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010): Poster Volume, pp 117–125, Beijing, August 23-27, 2010. Acrobat icon

2009

  • Chan, Samuel W. K., Lawrence Y. L. Cheung and Mickey W. C. Chong. (2009) "A Chinese chunk-based parser." CIPS-ParsEval-2009.

2008

2007

2006

  • Cheung, L. Y. L. (manuscript) "Negative Wh-Words in Cantonese." UCLA Working Papers in Syntax.

  • Cheung, L. Y. L. (forthcoming) "Negative Wh-Words in Cantonese." Proceedings of the 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Bellingham, Washington, June 23-25, 2006. Acrobat icon

  • Cheung, L. Y. L. (2006) "On Certain (Non-)Violations of Coordinate Structure Constraints." Snippets 12. Acrobat icon

  • T'sou, B. K. Y., T. B. Y. Lai, K. K. Sin and Y. L. Cheung. (2006) "Court Stenography-To-Text (“STT”) in Hong Kong: A Jurilinguistic Engineering Effort." Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006. [Acrobat icon | Brandeis repository]

2005

  • Cheung, Lawrence. "Sometimes We Just Can't Agree with Everyone--First Conjunct Agreement in Kiche." A manuscript written for field methods class taught by P. Munro. Acrobat icon
    [WARNING: I later realized that the agreement is more complicated than described in the paper. For example, I have come across cases when I change the verb, the pattern could be rather different. However, the consultant later on could not work with me any longer. I could not carry on with the study. But since no one has reported on the phenomenon in the language, it is still interesting to see some examples.]

2003

  • Robert W. P. Luk, Benjamin K. Tsou, Tom B. Y. Lai, Oi Yee Kwong, Francis C. Y. Chik and Lawrence Y. L. Cheung. (2003) Bilingual legal document retrieval and management using XML. Software--Practice & Experience 33(1): 41-59. Acrobat icon

  • CHEUNG, L. Y., B. K. Y. T'sou, and T. B. Y. Lai. (2003) "Error Identification and Correction in Chinese Speech Input Post-processing." Proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA 2003, Singapore, October 1-3, 2003, pp 233-240.

2002

  • Cheung, Lawrence Y. L., Benjamin K. Tsou and M. S. Sun. (2002) "Identification of Chinese Personal Names in Unrestricted Texts." Proceedings of the 16th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 16), Jeju, Korea, pp. 28-35. Acrobat icon

  • Cheung, L., T. Lai, R. Luk, O.Y. Kwong, K.K. Sin and B.K. Tsou. (2002) "Some Considerations on Guidelines for Bilingual Alignment and Terminology Extraction." Proceedings of the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (International Conference On Computational Linguistics Coling 18), pp. 1-5. [DOI: 10.3115/1118824.1118826]

  • Kwong, O. Y., Benjamin K T'sou, Lawrence Y. L. Cheung, Tom B. Y. Lai, Robert Luk and Francis Chik. (2002) "Alignment and Extraction of Bilingual Legal Terminology from Context Profiles." Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on COMPUTERM 2002: Second International Workshop on Computational Terminology. Acrobat icon

  • Tsou, Benjamin K. and Cheung, L. Y. L. (2002) "Personal Names in Unrestricted Chinese Texts: Nature and Identification." Proceedings of Workshop on International Standards of Terminology and Language Resource Management, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Las Palmas, Spain, May 28 - 2 June 2002. Acrobat icon

2001

  • Cheung, Lawrence, Tom Lai, Benjamin Tsou, Francis Chik, Robert Luk, and Oi Yee Kwong. (2001) "A Preliminary Study of Lexical Density for the Development of XML-based Discourse Structure Tagger." Proceedings of the 1st NLP and XML Workshop (Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium NLPRS 2001), pp. 63--70. Acrobat icon

2000

  • B K Tsou, K K Sin, S W K Chan, T B Y Lai, C Lun, K T Ko, G K K Chan, L Y L Cheung. (2000) "Jurilinguistic Engineering in Cantonese Chinese: An N-gram-based Speech to Text Transcription System." Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), July 31 - August 4, 2000, Universita"t des Saarlandes, Saarbru"cken, Germany. Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 1121-1125. [pdf1 Acrobat icon | pdf2 Acrobat icon]

  • T'sou, Benjamin K, Tom B. Y. Lai, Samuel W. K. Chan, Lawrence Y. L. Cheung, Kin-tat Ko, and Gary Chan. (2000) "Statistically-based Model for Computer-Aided Transcription Application", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT). Acrobat icon

  • Tsou, Benjamin K., K.K. Sin, Samuel W. K. Chan, Tom B. Y. Lai, Caesar Lun, K. T. Ko, Gary K. K. Chan, and Lawrence Y. L. Cheung. (2000) "Automatic Conversion from Phonetic to Textual Representation of Cantonese : The Case of Hong Kong Court Proceedings." Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 14), pp. 313--324 [Acrobat icon | Waseda DSpace]

1999

  • Cheung, Lawrence Y.L., Cheng, Chin-Chuan, Lai, Tom B. Y., Chan, Samuel Wai-kwong and T'sou, Benjamin K. (1999) "Innovative Design of Intelligent Language Tutoring System: Teaching Mandarin and Cantonese Romanization on the World Wide Web." Advanced Research in Computers and Communications in Education, Edited by G. Cumming, T. Okamoto & L. Gomez, 764-767, Hong Kong: IOS Press.

  • Tsou, Benjamin K, Cheng, C. C., Cheung, L. Y. L., Lai, T. B. Y., and Chan, S. W. K. (1999) "Proactive Guidance in Web-based Mandarin and Cantonese Romanization Instruction." Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multimedia Language Education, pp. 69-76. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co.


Invited Talks and Conference Presentations

    2018

  1. Cheung, Lawrence. (2018) "Metalinguistic Wh-Placeholders." (Reference beyond the DP: towards a crosslinguistic typology of the syntax and semantics of proforms), DGfS 2018: 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, University of Stuttgart, 7 - 9 March, 2018.


    2. 2017

  2. Cheung, Lawrence and Jackie Lai. (2017) "Mono-clausal Approach to Dislocation Copying in Cantonese." UChicago Linguistic Research Forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 17-18, 2017.

  3. 張欽良. (2017) 祈使句中的體貌詞尾“了”. 第六屆現代漢語句法語義前沿學術研討會. 香港中文大學. 2017/11/25-27.

  4. 洪嘉雯、張欽良. (2017) 粵語指示類祈使句句末助詞的地位及功用. 第二十二屆國際粵方言研討會. 香港教育大學. 2017/12/8-9.


    5. 2016

  5. Cheung, Lawrence. (2016) "Some New Observations of Non-final Sentence Particles." The 16th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-16), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April 9, 2016.

  6. Cheung, Lawrence and David Li. (2016) "Morphological Variation of Wh-placeholders across Cantonese, Mandarin, Min and Wu." The 28th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-28). Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, May 5-8, 2016.

  7. Cheung, Lawrence, Jacqueline Lam and Yang Han. (2016) "Computational Text Analytic Approach to Environmental Stakeholder Position of Air Pollution." HKU-USC-IPPA Conference on Public Policy. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2016.


    8. 2015

  8. 張欽良、謝明燊 (2015) 普通話和粵語語氣詞句法位置辨識,第二十屆國際粵方言研討會,香港中文大學

  9. Cheung, Lawrence and Margaret Lam. (2015) “Surprise Ascription of Mirative Adverbs in Cantonese.” The 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9). Stuttgart, Germany. September 24-26, 2015.

  10. Lam, Margaret and Lawrence Cheung. (2015) “Surprise-Amplifying Mat in Cantonese.” The 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL). Seoul, South Korea. August 26-28, 2015.

    11. 2014

  11. Chen, Yiyuan and Lawrence Y. L. Cheung. (2014) “Syntactic Constraints on Dislocation Copying Construction in Mandarin and Cantonese.” The 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), May 2-4, 2014.

  12. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L. and Longtu Zhang. (2014) “Inflectional/Periphrastic (I/P) Alternation of English Superlatives in Coordination.” Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014), PolyU, Hong Kong. March 6—8, 2014.

  13. Cheung, Lawrence and Longtu Zhang. (2014) “Inflectional/Periphrastic Alternation of English Comparatives in Coordination.” Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2014, Minneapolis, USA. January 2—6, 2014.

    14. 2013

  14. Wong, Oscar, Crono Tse and Lawrence Cheung. (2013) “Two ‘Ho2’ in Cantonese, ho2?” Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, November 30, 2013.

  15. Cheung, Lawrence and Longtu Zhang. (2013) “(Re)considering Determinants of the Inflectional/Periphrastic Alternation across English Comparatives and Superlatives.” The 5th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 5), University of Texas, Austin, September 25—29, 2013.

  16. Ge, Haoyan, Lawrence Cheung, Stephen Matthews, and Virginia Yip. (2013) Prosodic features of right-dislocation in child Cantonese. The 13th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-13), Baptist University of Hong Kong, March 16, 2013.

  17. Cheung, Lawrence. (2013) Covert Focus Movement Approach to Association with Focus: Evidence from Cantonese Sentence-Final Particle zaa (Invited Talk). Research Seminar Series, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong. (6/11/2013)

    18. 2012

  18. 張欽良、陳藝媛. (2012) 粵語“易位句”和“重複句”的定界問題. The 12th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-12), CUHK, Hong Kong, February 25, 2012.

  19. Ge, Haoyan, Lawrence Cheung, Stephen Matthews and Virigina Yip. (2012) “Syntactic Transfer of Right Dislocation in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children.” International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. CUHK, May 15-16, 2012.

  20. Cheung, Lawrence. (2012) "Island-Sensitivity in Association with Focus: Two Cantonese Sentence-Final Particles." (Invited Talk) The 20th Annual Conference, International Association of Chinese Linguistics. (29-31/8/2012)

  21. Cheung, L. (2012) “Some Problematic Word Order Issues in Chinese Dislocation Copying Construction.” Symposium of Chinese Word Order. CUHK, May 17, 2012.

    22. 2011

  22. Cheung, Lawrence. (2011) "Uttering the Unutterable with Wh-placeholders." LSA Annual Meeting 2011, Pittsburg, USA. Jan 6-9, 2011.

  23. Cheung, Lawrence. (2011) "The Syntax of Right Dislocation and Its Implications to the Clausal Structure of Chinese." Departmental Seminar Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong. (15/3/2011)

    24. 2010

  24. Cheung, Lawrence. "The Syntactic Manifestation of the Nuclear Stress Rule in Cantonese." The 28th WCCFL 2010, USC, Los Angeles. Feb 19-21, 2010. (Poster presentation)

  25. Chan, Samuel, Lawrence Cheung and Mickey Chong. (2010) "Tree Topological Features for Unlexicalized Parsing." COLING 2010, Beijing, August 23-27, 2010. (Poster presentation)

  26. Cheung, Lawrence. "Uttering the Unutterable with Wh-placeholders." Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dec 4, 2010.

    27. 2009

  27. Cheung, Lawrence. "Manifesting the Nuclear Stress Rule in Cantonese." Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. HKIEd, Dec 13, 2009.

  28. Cheung, Lawrence. "The Negative Wh-Construction and Its Semantic Properties." Colloquium, Dept of Linguistics & Modern Languages, Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Oct 22, 2009.

    29. 2008

  29. Cheung, Lawrence. "Negative Wh-Construction: Negation and Question-hood." Poster presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January, 2008.

    30. 2007

  30. Cheung, Lawrence. "Licensing Conditions of Negative Wh-words." Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January, 2007.

  31. Cheung, Lawrence. "First Language Acquisition of Elliptical Structures in Cantonese." Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 32, Boston, November, 2007. [paper Acrobat icon / abstract Acrobat icon]

  32. Cheung, Lawrence. "Negative Wh-construction: Question-hood, Negation and Implicature." Paper presented at The 4th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-4), Hong Kong, December 30, 2007.

    33. 2006

  33. Cheung, Lawrence. "Obligatory XP-Raising in Cantonese: Evidence from Dislocation Focus Construction." Paper presented at the International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Toronto, Nov 10-12, 2006. Proceedings paper published in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 28. Acrobat icon

    34. 2001

  34. Cheung, Lawrence Y. L., Lai, Tom B. Y., T'sou, Benjamin K. (2001). "Speech to Text Conversion in Jurilinguistic Engineering", Annual Conference and Joint Meetings of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC), CityU HK.

  35. 張欽良, 蔡永富, 鄒嘉彥. (2001) "澳門社會文化初探：區域意識認同", 《全國中華文化研究 (澳門)研討會》, 澳門.