| On economizing the theory of A-bar dependencies WTD Tsai Routledge, 2014 | 797 | 2014 |
| Left periphery and how-why alternations WTD Tsai Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17, 83-115, 2008 | 225 | 2008 |
| On nominal islands and LF extraction in Chinese WTD Tsai Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 12 (1), 121-175, 1994 | 194 | 1994 |
| On subject specificity and theory of syntax-semantics interface WTD Tsai Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10 (2), 129-168, 2001 | 167 | 2001 |
| On lexical courtesy WTD Tsai Journal of East Asian Linguistics 8 (1), 39-73, 1999 | 146 | 1999 |
| Cartography and licensing of wh-adjuncts: a cross-linguistic perspective A Stepanov, WTD Tsai Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 26, 589-638, 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
| Tense anchoring in Chinese WTD Tsai Lingua 118 (5), 675-686, 2008 | 136 | 2008 |
| Restricting non-restrictive relatives in Mandarin Chinese J Lin, WTD Tsai Chinese syntax in a cross-linguistic perspective, 100-127, 2015 | 100 | 2015 |
| On the topography of Chinese modals WTD Tsai Beyond functional sequence 10, 275, 2015 | 98 | 2015 |
| The hows of why and the whys of how WTD Tsai UCI Working papers in Linguistics 5 (1), 155-184, 1999 | 85 | 1999 |
| High applicatives are not high enough: A cartographic solution WTD Tsai Lingua Sinica 4, 1-21, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| On the absence of island effects WTD Tsai Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 27, 125-149, 1997 | 65 | 1997 |
| Visibility, complement selection and the case requirement of CP WTD Tsai Journal of East Asian Linguistics 4 (4), 281-312, 1995 | 56 | 1995 |
| A Tale of Two Peripheries WTD Tsai The Cartography of Chinese Syntax: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures …, 2015 | 55 | 2015 |
| Three types of existential quantification in Chinese WTD Tsai Functional structure (s), form and interpretation: Perspectives from Asian …, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| Actor-sensitivity and obligatory control in Kavalan and some other Formosan languages Y Chang, WD Tsai Language and Linguistics 2 (1), 1-20, 2001 | 40 | 2001 |
| Two types of wh-adverbials: A typological study of how and why in Tsou WTD Tsai, MY Chang Linguistic Variation Yearbook 3 (1), 213-236, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| Chinese syntax in a cross-linguistic perspective YA Li, A Simpson, WTD Tsai Oxford University Press, USA, 2015 | 26* | 2015 |
| Tan Hanyu motaici de fenbu yu quanshi zhi duiying guanxi [On the syntax-semantics correspondences of Chinese modals] WTD Tsai Zhongguo Yuwen [Studies of the Chinese Language] 3, 208-221, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| Object specificity in Chinese: A view from the vP periphery WTD Tsai Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 25 (3-4), 479-502, 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
