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Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng is a Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, with a focus on comparative syntax and its interactions with semantics, prosody, and processing. She co-founded the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) and is a member of KNAW, Academia Europaea, and LSA Fellow.
- PhD in Linguistics from MIT (1991)
- Assistant/Associate Professor at UC Irvine (1991-2000)
Her research explores language variation through comparative syntax, wh-questions, and interdisciplinary approaches involving the brain. Key projects include Ellipsis Licensing Beyond Syntax (NWO), Understanding Questions (NWO), and Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (FP7 EU). Her work spans Chinese, Bantu, and other languages, addressing phenomena like intervention effects and scope fixation.
Her publications include studies on wh-in-situ in Chinese, French, and Bantu languages, emphasizing the role of interfaces and cognitive processes. Awards include membership in KNAW (2017), Academia Europaea, and LSA Fellow status.
She has supervised over 20 PhD students and teaches syntax and syntax-semantics interface courses at Leiden University. Her affiliations include the Theoretical Linguistics and Experimental Linguistics groups.
