Ching-Yu Helen Yang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ching-Yu Helen Yang plays a role.

Article

Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan and Ching-Yu Helen Yang 2022 On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin ChineseNew Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 431–444 | Chapter
This chapter proposes a unified analysis of Mandarin miratives in terms of their syntax and pragmatics. We examine the rather curious behavior of sentential adverbs such as yuanlai ‘turn out’ and zenme ‘how come’ in conjunction with the sentence final particle a. Specifically, the construals in… read more