Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee is involved.

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The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese

Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee

Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 283] 2024. xxii, 214 pp.

Articles

Tsz-Ming Lee, Tommy 2024 Abstract: The unity of movement: evidence from verb movement in Cantonese The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese, Tsz-Ming Lee, Tommy, pp. xix–xx | To be specified

Yip, Ka-Fai and Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee 2022 Modal movement licensed by focus New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 165–192 | Chapter

This paper investigates the high position of root modals (such as keyi ‘may’) in Chinese, and its interaction with focus interpretations. We address a long-standing puzzle concerning their position: A-not-A questions appear to exceptionally license an otherwise unavailable high position of root… read more