Li, Chao. 2023. Animacy, Alternation, and Acceptability: Evidence from English and Mandarin. LACUS Forum 42 (1): 41-51.

Li, Chao. 2020.  Causer and Causee as Two Higher-Ranked Thematic Roles. Language and Linguistics 21: 601-635. 

Li, Chao. 2019. Where to Locate Mandarin Localizers? Journal of Chinese Linguistics 47: 345-370.

Li, Chao. 2018. Argument Realization of Psychological Verbs. Studies in Language 42: 755-797.

Li, Chao & Junkyu Lee. 2018. Moving beyond the Researcher’s Individual Introspection: Perspectives from the Key-Tolok Alternation and the Nominative-Accusative Alternation of Korean Resultatives. Language Sciences 66: 151-165. 

Li, Chao. 2016. Towards a Typology of Word-Level Causatives. Word 62 (3): 163-177. 

Li, Chao. 2015. Competing Motivations and Ditransitive Encoding and Ordering. Studies in Language 39 (2): 322-353.

Li, Chao. 2015. Event Structure and Argument Realization. SKY Journal of Linguistics 28: 249-275.

Li, Chao. 2015. On the V-DE Construction in Mandarin Chinese. Lingua Sinica 1 (6): 1-40.

Li, Chao. 2014. A Three-Way Distinction of English Resultatives and Its Implication for Resultative Typology. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 40 (2): 1-28.

Li, Chao. 2013. Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds: Simple Syntax and Complex Thematic Relations. Language Sciences 37: 99-121.

Li, Chao. 2013. The Logic of Chinese Syntactic Structure. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 41: 273-291.

Li, Chao. 2012. Topic Prominence and Its Pedagogical Implications. Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language 4: 69-93.

Li, Chao. 2011. Postverbal Constituents in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 2, 30-47.

Li, Chao. 2009. Argument Realization: Particularities and Universals. Proceedings of the Twenty-First North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 541-552.

Li, Chao. 2009. On the Argument Realization of Causatives. LACUS Forum 34: 137-146.     

Li, Chao. 2009. On the Headedness of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 35 (1): 27-63.

Li, Chao. 2009. On the Ordering of the Two Components of Resultatives. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS-8), 15-24.

Li, Chao. 2009. On the “Scare Reading” of Resultatives. Language Sciences 31: 389-408.

Li, Chao. 2008. On the Headedness of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds. Proceedings of the Twentieth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 2, 735-750.   

Li, Chao. 2007. Evolution of the Bei Constructions in Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 35 (1): 98-127.

Li, Chao. 2007. Split Ergativity and Split Intransitivity in Nepali. Lingua 117 (8): 1462-1482.

Li, Chao. 2007. Split Ergativity in Nepali and Its Typological Significance. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13 (1): 169-182.

Li, Chao. 2006. Does the Causing Component of a Resultative Have to Be an Activity? Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2006), vol. 17, 285-295. 

Li, Chao. 2006. On the Surface Unaccusative Frame of Resultatives. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS-7), 36-49.

Li, Chao. 2006. Some Remarks on “Ta Taitai Hen Piaoliang.” Proceedings of the Eighteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 304-316.

Li, Chao. 2005. On “Possessor Raising” in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the Seventeenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 203-218.

Li, Chao. 2005. On Verbal Nouns in Celtic Languages. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 25: 163-194. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University.

Li, Chao. 2005. Who Chased Whom and Who Got Tired: Accounting for Ambiguity in Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds. CLS 41.1: 313-328.

Li, Chao. 2004. Topic Prominence, “Double Nominative” Construction and Subject Importance in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the Sixteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 221-238.  

Li, Chao. 2000. Yesibosen Lun Yuyan de Bianhua [Jespersen’s Theory of Language Change]. Waiyu Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu 32 (6): 417-423.