Publications
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan, Ching-Yu Helen Yang, and Seng-hian Lau (to appear) "Modal Licensing and Subject Specificity in Mandarin and Taiwan Southern Min: a Cartographic Analysis," in Fuzhen Si (ed.), Studies in Cartographic Syntax. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2016) “Causality, Commitativity, Contrastivity, and Selfhood,” to appear in Jianhua Hu (ed.), Interfaces in Grammar. John Benjamins.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (to appear) “On Split Affectivity in Chinese,” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2015) "Subjecthood and Temporal Adjuncts in Atayal, Seediq and Tsou," in Elizabeth Zeitoun, Stacy F. Teng and Joy J. Wu (eds.), New Advances in Formosan Languages, 211-222. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2015) A Tale of Two Peripheries: Evidence from Chinese adverbials, light verbs, applicatives and object fronting. In The Cartography of Chinese Syntax, Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (ed.), 1-32. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lin, Jo-Wang and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (2015) "Restricting Non-restrictive Relatives in Mandarin Chinese," in Li, Y.-H. Audrey, Andrew Simpson, and W.-T. Dylan Tsai (eds.), Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, 100-127. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2015) "A Case of V2 in Chinese," Studies in Chinese Linguistics 36.2: 59-86.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2015) "On the Topography of Chinese Modals," in Ur Shlonsky (ed.), Beyond Functional Sequence, 275-294. New York: Oxford University Press
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2014) "Syntax-semantics mismatches, focus movement and light verb syntax," in Huang, James C.-T. and Feng-hsi Liu (eds), 203-226. Peaches and Plums. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
Fujii, Tomohiro, Kensuke Takita, Barry Chung-Yu Yang and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (2014) "Comparative Remarks on Wh-adverbials in Situ in Japanese and Chinese," in Mamoru Saito (ed.) Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective, 181-205. New York: Oxford University Press
Kikushima, Kazunori and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (2013) A Cartographic Study of Chinese and Japanese Modal Constructions, in Yoichi Miyamoto, Daiko Takahashi, Hideki Maki, Masao Ochi, Koji Sugisaki and Asako Uchibori (eds.), Deep Insights, Broad Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Mamoru Saito, 167-191. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai and Chun-Ming Wu (2012) “Conjunctive Reduction Revisited: Evidence from Mayrinax & Paiwan,” Oceanic Linguistics 51.1: 160-181.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2012) "High Applicatives are not High Enough: A Cartographic Solution," paper presented in the 14th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Xi'an Foreign Language University, Xi'an, May 2012.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2008) "Tense Anchoring in Chinese", Lingua 118: 675–686.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2008) "On Relativizing Adverbials", Language and Linguistics 9.4: 967-984.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2008) "Object Specificity in Chinese: A view from the vP periphery," The Linguistic Review 25: 479-502.
Stepanov, Arthur, and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (2008) "Cartography and Licensing of
WH-Adjuncts: A Cross-linguistic Perspective," Natural Language & Linguistic
Theory 26: 589-638.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2008) "Tense Anchoring in Chinese", Lingua 118: 675–686.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2008) "Left Periphery and How-Why Alternations", Journal
of East Asian Linguistics 17: 83-115.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2007) "Conjunctive Reduction and its Origin: A Comparative Study
of Tsou, Amis, and Squliq Atayal", Oceanic Linguistics 46: 585-602.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2006) "A Formal Study of Grammaticalization in Tsou," in Chang,
Henry Y., Lillian M. Huang, and Dah-an Ho (eds.) Streams Converging into an Ocean:
Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Jen-Kuei Li, 323-340, Academia Sinica.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (2003) "Three Types of Existential Quantification in Chinese," in Li,
Audrey and Andrew Simpson (eds.) Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation:
Perspectives from Asian Languages, 161-179, Routledge Curzon, London.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan and Melody Yayin Chang (2003) "Two Types of Wh-Adverbials:
A Typological Study of How and Why in Tsou," in The Linguistic Variation
Yearbook 3, 213-236. John Benjamins.
Chang, Yung-li and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (2001) "Actor-sensitivity and Obligatory Control
in Kavalan and Some Other Formosan Languages," Language and Linguistics 2.1: 1-20.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (1999) "On Lexical Courtesy," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 8, 39-73.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (1995) "Visibility, Complement Selection and the Case Requirement of
CP," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 4, 281-312.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan (1994) "On Nominal Islands and LF Extraction in Chinese," Natural
Language & Linguistic Theory 12, 121-175.
