Yunfan Lai

653 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 258 citations indexed

About

Yunfan Lai is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunfan Lai has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 258 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Language and Linguistics, 14 papers in Linguistics and Language and 11 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Yunfan Lai's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (12 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (10 papers). Yunfan Lai is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (12 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (10 papers). Yunfan Lai collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Ireland and France. Yunfan Lai's co-authors include Guillaume Jacques, Johann‐Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Robin Ryder and Laurent Sagart and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Linguistic Typology.

In The Last Decade

Yunfan Lai

23 papers receiving 247 citations

Hit Papers

Dated language phylogenie... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 40 80 120
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan
    2019 137 citations Guillaume Jacques, Yunfan Lai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yunfan Lai Germany 7 122 120 90 47 37 25 258
Bethwyn Evans Australia 6 158 1.3× 154 1.3× 98 1.1× 38 0.8× 71 1.9× 11 312
Larry Trask 3 84 0.7× 95 0.8× 88 1.0× 42 0.9× 28 0.8× 5 201
Matthias Urban Germany 10 97 0.8× 119 1.0× 114 1.3× 48 1.0× 90 2.4× 39 313
Ann Taylor United Kingdom 8 142 1.2× 172 1.4× 124 1.4× 110 2.3× 33 0.9× 17 326
Uri Tadmor Germany 6 180 1.5× 205 1.7× 96 1.1× 59 1.3× 57 1.5× 15 336
Paul Proulx 7 117 1.0× 150 1.3× 84 0.9× 43 0.9× 64 1.7× 34 257
Gérard Philippson France 8 147 1.2× 158 1.3× 24 0.3× 51 1.1× 69 1.9× 16 370
Gary Holton United States 9 83 0.7× 75 0.6× 38 0.4× 68 1.4× 31 0.8× 31 221
Willem F. H. Adelaar Netherlands 8 167 1.4× 235 2.0× 96 1.1× 43 0.9× 64 1.7× 28 365
Rainer Voßen Germany 10 119 1.0× 116 1.0× 38 0.4× 28 0.6× 48 1.3× 24 291

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yunfan Lai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunfan Lai

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All Works

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Lai, Yunfan & Johann‐Mattis List. (2023). Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 99–99.
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Lai, Yunfan. (2023). Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology. Diachronica. 40(3). 341–383. 3 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan & Johann‐Mattis List. (2023). Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 99–99. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2023). On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale. 52(1). 1–39. 3 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2022). Preinitial denasalisation and palatal fortition in Khroskyabs and the Gyalrongic word for ‘man’. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 45(2). 211–229. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan, et al.. (2022). Variations ?tymologiques sur l'?tymon sino-tib?tain '?tau, pinces'. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations
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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). 213–261. 6 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2021). The complexity and history of verb-stem ablauting patterns in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Folia Linguistica. 55(1). 75–126. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2021). The complexity and history of verb-stem ablauting patterns in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Folia Linguistica. 0(0). 2 indexed citations
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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. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2020). Betrayal through obedience: on the history of the unusual inflectional chain in Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Linguistic Typology. 25(1). 79–122. 3 indexed citations
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Jacques, Guillaume, et al.. (2019). A study of cognates between Gyalrong languages and Old Chinese. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 17(1-2). 73–92. 10 indexed citations
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List, Johann‐Mattis, et al.. (2019). “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. 17(1-2). 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2019). The Polysemous Liah 力 in Early Modern Southern Min and Its Contemporary Fate. Journal of Chinese linguistics. 47(1). 193–226. 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan, et al.. (2018). Rethinking the orientational prefixes in Rgyalrongic languages: The case of Siyuewu Khroskyabs. Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 3 indexed citations
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Jacques, Guillaume, et al.. (2016). Stau (Ergong, Horpa). SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2016). Causativisation in Wobzi and other Khroskyabs dialects. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale. 45(2). 148–175. 8 indexed citations
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Jacques, Guillaume, et al.. (2014). Person Marking in Stau. 13(2). 12 indexed citations
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Lai, Yunfan. (2014). The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman). Transactions of the Philological Society. 113(3). 271–285. 20 indexed citations

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