Jian Jiao
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jian Jiao plays a role.
Article
2020 Chapter 11. The acquisition of personal a among Chinese-speaking L2 learners of Spanish: A case for syntactic complexity Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 233–252 | Chapter
The present study examines the acquisition of differential object marking (dom) in Spanish among Mandarin-speaking L2 learners from China. Unlike Mandarin, which marks the direct object only in preverbal position (i.e., in SOV sentences) and is a topic-prominent language, Spanish allows dom in both… read more