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  1. Modals in imperatives

    Article • Linguistic Variation, March 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  2. A tale of two EVENs

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  3. Extraction asymmetries in topic structures: a comparative analysis

    Article • Journal of East Asian Linguistics, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  4. Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min

    Article • April 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  5. Against the Low Periphery as Phrase Markers: Two Types of Contrastive Dislocations in Mandarin Chinese*

    Article • Studia Linguistica, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  6. Syntactic structures of Mandarin purposives

    Article • Linguistics, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  7. Bare numeral phrases in Mandarin and the Minimalist Mapping Hypothesis

    Article • International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, August 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  8. Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures

    Article • Studies in Chinese Linguistics, December 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  9. The Archimedes’ Principle in Linguistics: 漢語時量詞組的句法-語意錯置現象與語言學理論中的對稱定律

    Article • Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, January 2015, Brill

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  10. Once upon an invisible TIME: On Frequentative Phrases in Chinese

    Article • Studies in Chinese Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  11. Grammatical Relations

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  12. The same Difference: Comparative Syntax-Semantics of English same and Chinese tong/xiang-tong

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  13. On modification with whole/zheng in English and Chinese and the uniformity of syntax

    Article • Journal of East Asian Linguistics, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  14. Morphology

    Article • February 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  15. Multiple-classifier constructions and nominal expressions in Chinese

    Article • Journal of East Asian Linguistics, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao

  16. On the loss of identity and emergence of order: Symmetry breaking in linguistic theory

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr. Wei-wen Roger Liao