Meili Liu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Meili Liu plays a role.
Articles
2023 The grammaticalization of impossibility: The emergence of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa Language and Linguistics 24:4, pp. 733–763 | Article
This study, based on the analysis of historical corpus data, investigates the diachronic development of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa and establishes implications both for the grammaticalization of modals and for grammaticalization theory in general. Specifically, our study shows the… read more
2022 Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and networks in diachronic Construction Grammar Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 290–297 | Review