Academic Profile : Faculty

Journal Articles
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Zhang, Shuya and Yunfan Lai. 2025. New origins to vowel tensing in Tangut: internal and comparative evidence. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (online first).
Lai, Yunfan. 2024. Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping: The case of Gyalrongic preinitials. Diachronica (online first).
Lai, Yunfan. 2024. Musk deer are inherited: The reconstruction of the onset *t.ɬj- in Proto-Gyalrongic. Journal of Historical Linguistics (online first).
Lai, Yunfan, 2024. Thoughts on the Etyma for ‘Corpse’in Gyalrongic Languages. Transactions of the Philological Society (online first).
Lai, Yunfan, 2023. Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology. Diachronica, 40(3), pp.341-383.
Lai, Yunfan, 2023. On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 52(1), pp.1-39.
Lai, Yunfan and List, Johann-Mattis, 2023. Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages. Open Research Europe, 3.
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. Variations étymologiques sur l'étymon sino-tibétain 'étau, pinces'. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 117(1), pp.297-312.
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. Preinitial denasalisation and palatal fortition in Khroskyabs and the Gyalrongic word for ‘man’. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 45(2), pp.211-229.
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. When internal reconstruction goes further: proposing the vowel system of Pre-Khroskyabs through examining bound state apophony. Folia Linguistica, 56(s43-s1), pp.213-261.
Gates, Jesse P., Honkasalo, Sami and Lai, Yunfan, 2022. From transitive to intransitive and voiceless to voiced in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: New evidence from Stau, Geshiza, and Khroskyabs. Language and Linguistics, 23(2), pp.212-239.
Lai, Yunfan, 2021. The complexity and history of verb-stem ablauting patterns in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Folia Linguistica, 55(1), pp.75-126.
Lai, Yunfan, 2021. Come is the new go: The evolution of stem alternation of basic motion verbs in Khroskyabs. Language and linguistics, 22(2), pp.338-375.
Lai, Yunfan, 2021. Betrayal through obedience: on the history of the unusual inflectional chain in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Linguistic Typology, 25(1), pp.79-122.
Lai, Yunfan, Gong, Xun, Gates, Jesse P. and Jacques, Guillaume, 2020. Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language. Folia Linguistica, 54(s41-s1), pp.171-203.
Lai, Yunfan, 2020. The historical development of inverse marking in Khroskyabs: evidence from two modern varieties–Siyuewu and Wobzi. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83(2), pp.259-281.
Sagart, Laurent, Jacques, Guillaume, Lai, Yunfan, Ryder, Robin J., Thouzeau, Valentin, Greenhill, Simon J. and List, Johann-Mattis, 2019. Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(21), pp.10317-10322.
Zhang, Shuya, Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan, 2019. A study of cognates between Gyalrong languages and Old Chinese. Journal of Language Relationship, 17(1-2), pp.73-92.
Lai, Yunfan, 2019. The polysemous lia̍h 力 in Early Modern Southern Min and its contemporary fate. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 47(1), pp.193-226.
Lai, Yunfan. 2024. Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping: The case of Gyalrongic preinitials. Diachronica (online first).
Lai, Yunfan. 2024. Musk deer are inherited: The reconstruction of the onset *t.ɬj- in Proto-Gyalrongic. Journal of Historical Linguistics (online first).
Lai, Yunfan, 2024. Thoughts on the Etyma for ‘Corpse’in Gyalrongic Languages. Transactions of the Philological Society (online first).
Lai, Yunfan, 2023. Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology. Diachronica, 40(3), pp.341-383.
Lai, Yunfan, 2023. On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 52(1), pp.1-39.
Lai, Yunfan and List, Johann-Mattis, 2023. Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages. Open Research Europe, 3.
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. Variations étymologiques sur l'étymon sino-tibétain 'étau, pinces'. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 117(1), pp.297-312.
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. Preinitial denasalisation and palatal fortition in Khroskyabs and the Gyalrongic word for ‘man’. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 45(2), pp.211-229.
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. When internal reconstruction goes further: proposing the vowel system of Pre-Khroskyabs through examining bound state apophony. Folia Linguistica, 56(s43-s1), pp.213-261.
Gates, Jesse P., Honkasalo, Sami and Lai, Yunfan, 2022. From transitive to intransitive and voiceless to voiced in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: New evidence from Stau, Geshiza, and Khroskyabs. Language and Linguistics, 23(2), pp.212-239.
Lai, Yunfan, 2021. The complexity and history of verb-stem ablauting patterns in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Folia Linguistica, 55(1), pp.75-126.
Lai, Yunfan, 2021. Come is the new go: The evolution of stem alternation of basic motion verbs in Khroskyabs. Language and linguistics, 22(2), pp.338-375.
Lai, Yunfan, 2021. Betrayal through obedience: on the history of the unusual inflectional chain in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Linguistic Typology, 25(1), pp.79-122.
Lai, Yunfan, Gong, Xun, Gates, Jesse P. and Jacques, Guillaume, 2020. Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language. Folia Linguistica, 54(s41-s1), pp.171-203.
Lai, Yunfan, 2020. The historical development of inverse marking in Khroskyabs: evidence from two modern varieties–Siyuewu and Wobzi. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83(2), pp.259-281.
Sagart, Laurent, Jacques, Guillaume, Lai, Yunfan, Ryder, Robin J., Thouzeau, Valentin, Greenhill, Simon J. and List, Johann-Mattis, 2019. Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(21), pp.10317-10322.
Zhang, Shuya, Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan, 2019. A study of cognates between Gyalrong languages and Old Chinese. Journal of Language Relationship, 17(1-2), pp.73-92.
Lai, Yunfan, 2019. The polysemous lia̍h 力 in Early Modern Southern Min and its contemporary fate. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 47(1), pp.193-226.
Book Chapters
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staff as info will be
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staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Lai, Yunfan, 2022. Directional prefixes in Wobzi Khroskyabs. Grammatical Phenomena of Sino‐Tibetan Languages 3: Functions of directional prefixes. Ed. by Shintaro Arakawa and Takumi Ikeda. Kyoto: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, pp. 153–171.
Jacques, Guillaume, Yunfan Lai, Anton Antonov, and Lobsang Nima. 2017. Stau (Ergong, Horpa). The Sino‐Tibetan Lan‐ guages. Ed. by Graham Thurgood and Randy LaPolla. 2nd. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 597–613.
Gong, Xun and Yunfan Lai. 2016. Consonant Clusters. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Ed. by Rint Sybesma. Brill Online.
Jacques, Guillaume, Yunfan Lai, Anton Antonov, and Lobsang Nima. 2017. Stau (Ergong, Horpa). The Sino‐Tibetan Lan‐ guages. Ed. by Graham Thurgood and Randy LaPolla. 2nd. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 597–613.
Gong, Xun and Yunfan Lai. 2016. Consonant Clusters. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Ed. by Rint Sybesma. Brill Online.
Keynote Speeches & Editorship of Special Issues
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Lai, Yunfan. 2023. “Tsampa linguistics: Wörter und Essen in Rgyalrongic languages”. Keynote speech at the 7th Undergraduate Academic Conference in Humanities, Education University of Hong Kong, June 2023.
Hill, Nathan and Yunfan Lai (eds). Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, Volume 14 (2021), Issue 1. (co-editor of the special issue “BCL Forum: Research of PRC scholars on selected topics in Chinese historical linguistics”)
List, Johann-Mattis, Giorgi Starostin and Yunfan Lai (eds). Journal of of language relationship, Volume 17 (2019): Issue 1-2 (co-editor of the special issue “Old Chinese and Friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area”)
Hill, Nathan and Yunfan Lai (eds). Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, Volume 14 (2021), Issue 1. (co-editor of the special issue “BCL Forum: Research of PRC scholars on selected topics in Chinese historical linguistics”)
List, Johann-Mattis, Giorgi Starostin and Yunfan Lai (eds). Journal of of language relationship, Volume 17 (2019): Issue 1-2 (co-editor of the special issue “Old Chinese and Friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area”)
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