Qiao Gan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Qiao Gan is involved.
Articles
2026 “There’s a lot more Chinese people”: Tracking ethnic variation in plural there existentials over time in Australian English International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The variable realisation of there+be+plural arguments (e.g. there’s a lot more Chinese people) is well-documented across English varieties, but little research has examined its use among ethnic minorities or how intersecting social factors shape its variation. This study addresses these gaps,… read more
2025 Examining contextual constraints on the English dative alternation in L2 written production: A contrastive multifactorial analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:3, pp. 265–295 | Article
This study examines how contextual factors influence the English dative alternation in written production by Chinese EFL learners, with native English usage serving as the benchmark for comparison. The dataset contained 2,492 tokens of the dative alternation (e.g. They give us books vs. They… read more