List of publications

Journal papers

Lai, Yunfan. 2013. 俄热话的辅音重叠. 民族语文, 6, pp.12-18. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{lai13redupli,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {\zh{民族語文}},
Pages = {12-18},
Title = {\zh{俄热话的辅音重叠}},
Volume = {6},
Year = {2013}}
Jacques, Guillaume., Antonov, Anton., Lai, Yunfan. and Nima, Lobsang., 2014. Person marking in Stau. Himalayan Linguistics, 13(2). [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{jaketal14stau,
Author = {Jacques, Guillaume and Antonov, Anton and Lai, Yunfan and Lobzang, Nima},
Journal = {Himalayan Linguistics},
Number = {2},
Pages = {83-93},
Title = {Person marking in {S}tau},
Volume = {13},
Year = {2014}}
Lai, Yunfan., 2015. The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman). Transactions of the Philological Society, 113(3), pp.271-285. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{laitaa,
Author = {Yunfan Lai},
Journal = {Transactions of the Philological Society},
Number = {3},
Pages = {271-285},
Title = {The {P}erson {A}greement {S}ystem of {W}obzi {L}avrung (r{G}yalrongic, {T}ibeto-Burman)},
Volume = {113},
Year = {2015}}
Lai, Yunfan., 2016. Causativisation in Wobzi and other Khroskyabs dialects. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 45(2), pp.148-175. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{lai16caus,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale},
Number = {2},
Pages = {148-175},
Title = {{C}ausativisation in {W}obzi and other {K}hroskyabs dialects},
Volume = {45},
Year = {2016}}
Lai, Yunfan., 2018. Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 41(2), pp.219-262. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{lai2018,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {{L}inguistics of the {T}ibeto-{B}urman {A}rea},
Number = {2},
Pages = {219-262},
Title = {{R}elativisation in {W}obzi {K}hroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation},
Volume = {41},
Year = {2018}}
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. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{lai19liah,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Journal of Chinese Linguistics},
Number = {1},
Pages = {193-226},
Title = {{T}he polysemous \ipa{li{\=a}h} \zh{力} in {E}arly {M}odern {S}outhern {M}in and its contemporary fate},
Volume = {47},
Year = {2019}}
Zhang, Shuya., Guillaume, Jacques. and Lai, Yunfan., 2019. A study of cognates between Gyalrong and Old Chinese. Journal of Language Relationship, 17(1), pp.73-92. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{zhang19cognates,
Author = {Zhang, Shuya and Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Journal of Language Relationship},
Number = {1},
Pages = {73-92},
Title = {{A} study of cognates between {G}yalrong languages and {O}ld {C}hinese},
Volume = {17},
Year = {manuscript}}
List, Johann-Mattis., Lai, Yunfan. and Starostin, Giorgi., 2019. Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship, 17(1), pp.1-6. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{list2019old,
title={Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area},
author={List, Johann-Mattis and Lai, Yunfan and Starostin, George S},
journal={Journal of Language Relationship},
volume={17},
number={1},
pages={1--6},
year={2019},
publisher={RGGU} }
Sagart, Laurent, Jacques, Guillaume, Lai, Yunfan, Ryder, Robin, Thouzeau, Valentin, Greenhill Simon, 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.10317-22. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{sagart19dated,
Author = {Sagart, Laurent and Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan and Ryder, Robin J. and Thouzeau, Valentin and Greenhill, Simon J. and List, Johann-Mattis},
Journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
Number = {21},
Pages = {10317-10322},
Title = {Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan},
Volume = {116},
Year = {2019} }
Lai, Yunfan, Xun Gong, Jesse Gates, Guilllaume Jacques. 2020. Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language. Folia Linguistica Historica 41 (1): 171-203. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{laitangut,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan and Gong, Xun and Gates, Jesse and Jacques, Guillaume},
Journal = {Folia Linguistica Historica},
Title = {{T}angut as a {W}est {G}yalrongic language},
Year = {2020} }
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): 259-281. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{lai,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research},
Title = {The historical development of inverse marking in Khroskyabs: evidence from two modern varieties; Siyuewu and Wobzi},
Volume = {83},
Number = {2},
Pages = {259-281},
Year = {2020} }
Lai, Yunfan. 2021. Come is the new go: the evolution of stem alternation of basic motion verbs in Khroskyabs. Language and Linguistics 22:2, 338-375. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{laicomego,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {{L}anguage and {L}inguistics},
Title = {{C}ome is the new go: the evolution of stem alternation of basic motion verbs in {K}hroskyabs},
Volume = {22},
Number = {2},
Pages = {338-375}
Year = {2021} }
Lai, Yunfan. 2021. Betrayal through obedience: The history of the unusual inflection chain in Khroskyabs. Linguistic Typology. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{laibetrayal,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Linguistic Typology (published ahead of print)},
Title = {{B}etrayal through obedience: {T}he history of the unusual inflection chain in {K}hroskyabs},
Year = {2021} }
Lai, Yunfan. 2021. The complexity and history of verb stem ablauting patterns in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Folia Linguistica. published online ahead of print 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/folia-2020-2071. [URL] [Supplementary materials]
[Bibtex] @article{laitangut,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Folia Linguistica},
Title = {{T}he complexity and history of verb stem ablauting patterns in {S}iyuewu {K}hroskyabs},
Year = {2021 (published online ahead of print 2021), 000010151520202071).}
DOI = {https://doi.org/10.1515/folia-2020-2071} }
Gates, Jesse, Sami Honkasalo and Lai Yunfan. to appear in 2022/2023. From transitive to intransitive and voiceless to voiced in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: New evidence from Stau, Geshiza, and Khroskyabs. Language and Linguistics. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{gatestr,
Author = {Gates, Jesse and Honkasalo, Sami and Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Language and Linguistics},
Title = {From transitive to intransitive and voiceless to voiced in {P}roto-{S}ino-{T}ibetan: {N}ew evidence from {S}tau, {G}eshiza, and {K}hroskyabs},
Year = {forthcoming} }
Lai, Yunfan. to appear in 2021. 嘉绒语组语言动词的分类——以绰斯甲（拉坞戎）语为例. 语言学论丛. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{lairgyalverbs,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {语言学论丛},
Title = {嘉绒语组语言动词的分类——以绰斯甲（拉坞戎）语为例},
Year = {forthcoming} }

Dissertations

Lai Yunfan. 2013. La morphologie affixale du lavrung wobzi (Master dissertation, Université de Paris III). [URL]
[Bibtex] @mastersthesis{lai2013affix,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
School = {Universit{\'e} Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle},
Title = {La morphologie affixale du lavrung wobzi},
Year = {2013}}
Lai, Yunfan. 2017. Grammaire du khroskyabs de Wobzi (Doctoral dissertation, Université de Paris Sorbonne Cité). [URL]
[Bibtex] @unpublished{lai17these,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Note = {Paris: Universit{\'e} Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle dissertation},
Title = {{G}rammaire du khroskyabs de Wobzi},
Year = {2017}}

Book chapters

Gong, Xun and Lai, Yunfan. 2016. 'Consonant Clusters.' In: Sybesma, Rint, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics: Volume 1 (A–Dǎi). Leiden: Brill, pp. 665-672. [URL]
[Bibtex] @incollection{xunlai16oc,
Author = {Gong, Xun and Lai, Yunfan},
Booktitle = {{E}ncyclopedia of {C}hinese {L}anguage and {L}inguistics},
Editor = {Sybesma, Rint},
Month = {January, 2016},
Publisher = {Brill Online},
Title = {{C}onsonant {C}lusters in {C}hinese},
Year = {2016}}
Jacques Guillaume, Antonov Anton, Lai Yunfan, Nima Lobsang. 2017. Stau (Ergong, Horpa). In Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (eds), The Sino-Tibetan languages. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 597–613. [URL]
[Bibtex] @incollection{stausketch,
Author = {Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan and Antonov, Anton and Nima, Lobsang},
Booktitle = {{T}he {S}ino-{T}ibetan {L}anguages},
Edition = {2nd},
Editor = {Thurgood, Graham and LaPolla, Randy},
Pages = {597-613},
Publisher = {Abingdon and New York: Routledge},
Title = {{S}tau ({E}rgong, {H}orpa)},
Year = {2017}}
Lai, Yunfan. forthcoming. Directional prefixes in Wobzi Khroskyabs. In ARAKAWA Shintaro and IKEDA Takumi (eds), Grammatical Phenomena of Sino-Tibetan Languages 3: Functions of Directional Prefixes. Kyoto: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. [URL]
[Bibtex] @incollection{laidirect,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Booktitle = {Grammatical Phenomena of {S}ino-{T}ibetan {L}anguages 3: {F}unctions of directional prefixes},
Editor = {Arakawa, Shintaro and Ikeda, Takumi},
Publisher = {Kyoto: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University},
Title = {Directional prefixes in {W}obzi {K}hroskyabs},
Year = {forthcoming}}

Book review

Lai, Yunfan. 2020. Sami Honkasalo: A grammar of Eastern Geshiza: A culturally anchored description. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{laigeshizareview,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Journal = {Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies},
Title = {Sami {H}onkasalo: {A} grammar of {E}astern {G}eshiza: {A} culturally anchored description},
Volume = {83},
Number = {2},
Pages = {374-375},
Year = {2020}}

Databases

Lai, Yunfan. 2013. Wobzi Lavrung Database, in rGyalrongic Languages Database. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. [URL]
[Bibtex] @webpage{nagano13database,
Author = {Lai, Yunfan},
Editor = {Nagano, Yasuhiko and Prins, Marielle},
Title = {{W}obzi {L}avrung {D}atabase, in r{G}yalrongic {L}anguages {D}atabase},
Url = {http://pdesign.sakura.ne.jp/_rgyalrong/},
Year = {2013},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://pdesign.sakura.ne.jp/_rgyalrong/}}
Christoph Rzymski, Tiago Tresoldi, Simon J Greenhill, Mei-Shin Wu, Nathanael E Schweikhard, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Volker Gast, Timotheus A Bodt, Abbie Hantgan, Gereon A Kaiping, Sophie Chang, Yunfan Lai, Natalia Morozova, Heini Arjava, Nataliia Hübler, Ezequiel Koile, Steve Pepper, Mariann Proos, Briana Van Epps, Ingrid Blanco, Carolin Hundt, Sergei Monakhov, Kristina Pianykh, Sallona Ramesh, Russell D Gray, Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List. 2020. The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies. Scientific Data, 7(12). pp1-12. [URL]
[Bibtex] @article{rzymski20clc,
Author = {Rzymski, Christoph and Tresoldi, Tiago and Greenhill, Simon and Wu, Mei-Shin and Schweikhard, Nathanael and Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria and Gast, Volker and Bodt, Timotheus and Hantgan, Abbie and Kaiping, Gereon and Chang, Sophie and Lai, Yunfan and Morozova, Natalia and Arjava, Heini and H{\"u}bler, Nataliia and Koile, Ezequiel and Pepper, Steven and Proos, Mariann and Van Epps, Briana and Blanco, Ingrid and Hundt, Carolin and Monakhov, Sergei and Pianykh, Kristina and
Ramesh, Sallona and Gray, Russell and Forkel, Robert and List, Johann-Mattis},
Journal = {Scientific Data},
Title = {The {D}atabase of {C}ross-{L}inguistic {C}olexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies},
Year = {2020}}