publications & presentations

This page lists my research output. Please email me if you would like a copy of anything that isn't already linked!

peer-reviewed articles

2024

  1. The development of zl in Tibetic languages
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    2024
    Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 51 (1). pp.32-67.
    DOI

conference proceedings

2025

  1. Development of Tibetic verb paradigms: Diachronic and paradigm-based explanations
    Kitty Wenying Liu and Samuel Andersson
    2025
    Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 10 (1).
    DOI

peer-reviewed presentations

2026

  1. Investigating Classical Tibetan clause-chaining in a part-of-speech tagged corpus
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Mar 2026
    Part of the ‘Data in Historical Linguistics’ seminar series, King’s College London, UK.

2025

  1. Pragmaticalisation of the Speaker and Addressee in the history of Tibetan and Newar
    Marieke Meelen, Christian Faggionato, Kitty Wenying Liu, Liwen Liu, and Nathan W. Hill
    Mar 2025
    Presentation at the ‘Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes’ workshop, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
  2. Development of Tibetic verb paradigms: Diachronic and paradigm-based explanations
    Kitty Wenying Liu and Samuel Andersson
    Jan 2025
    Presentation at the Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

2023

  1. The development of zl in Tibetic languages: Assessing sound change pathways and functional load
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Apr 2023
    Presentation at the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain annual meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

theses

2024

  1. Verb paradigms in Tibetic: Morphophonology in diachronic perspective
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Jun 2024
    MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge
    DOI

2023

  1. The development of zl in Tibetic languages: Assessing sound change pathways and functional load
    Kitty Wenying Liu
    Mar 2023
    BA Hons dissertation, University of Cambridge