Huibin Zhuang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Huibin Zhuang plays a role.
Articles
2024 Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese: With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese Language and Linguistics 26:1, pp. 123–154 | Article
This paper argues that the Chinese language has undergone a foot-shift from the Old Chinese monosyllabic foot to a Modern Chinese disyllabic foot. It will be shown that the natural simplification of Old Chinese syllables has caused the foot-shift, resulting in disyllabification. The… read more
2017 Fake attributives in Chinese: A prosodic grammar perspective Language and Linguistics 18:1, pp. 141–176 | Article
Fake attributives in Chinese are the result of the interaction between syntax and prosody. For syntactic reasons, certain objects of complex verbal constructions and verbal quantifiers cannot be realized in situ; but they can be spelled out in some roundabout ways, one of which is to form fake… read more