After earning his PhD in 2026, Ka Fai Yip has joined Academia Sinica, the most prestigious research institute in Taiwan, as a tenure track Assistant Research Fellow of the Institute of Linguistics.
Ka-Fai Yip started his PhD in Linguistics in 2020. Before coming to Yale, he earned a BA and an MPhil degree in Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017 and 2019 respectively. He is mainly interested in syntax, semantics and their interface as well as the syntax-prosody interface, from theoretical and comparative perspectives. He is also interested in addressing language variations using corpora. His research languages include East Asian and Southeast Asian languages.
Research Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese