Ching-Yu Helen Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ching-Yu Helen Yang plays a role.
Article
2022 On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese New 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