Yicheng Wu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yicheng Wu plays a role.
2024 Disagreeing without tears: The interactive process of mitigating disagreement in a Chinese venture capital reality television show Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2, pp. 518–552 | Article
Disagreement, while generally seen as an act threatening interlocutors’ face, is indispensable in particular contexts. Based on an in-depth linguistic and paralinguistic analysis of 12 cases of disagreement from a Chinese venture capital reality TV show We Are the Hero, we found that in this… read more
2023 Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology, Norde, Muriel and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 291–296 | Review
2022 Review of Narrog & Heine (2021): Grammaticalization Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:2, pp. 346–352 | Review
2021 On indefinite subjects in Mandarin: A semantic account International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This study investigates the licensing conditions and interpretational variability of indefinite subjects in Mandarin. Against the ‘definiteness’ constraint of subject in Mandarin (Chao 1968; Li and Thompson 1981), three types of indefinite subjects are identified in the subject position, but… read more
2021 Efficiency in shaping grammars: The case of multiple occurrences of the Chinese reflexive ziji Pragmatics and Society 12:2, pp. 224–242 | Article
Hawkins (1994, 1999, 2004, 2014a) proposes a performance-grammar correspondence hypothesis, claiming that grammars can be shaped by processing systems with reference to the degree of preference in communication. Given that Hawkins’s proposal mainly highlights the role of efficiency in language… read more
2020 On the scope of quantifier phrases in Chinese passive construction International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1, pp. 71–89 | Article
Quantifier phrases (QP) can co-occur in a single sentence, which may cause ambiguity in terms of scope relation, viz. wide scope and narrow scope interpretations. Aoun & Li (1993) claim that quantifier scope ambiguity also exists in Chinese passive construction, such as yige nűren bei meige ren… read more
2018 The constructionalization and constructional change of noncanonical V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 886–922 | Article
This paper investigates the process of constructionalization and constructional change of apparently noncanonical yet highly frequent V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese, which exist in other languages as well (e.g., Southeast Asian languages and African languages). A corpus-based survey of 20… read more
2016 Object expletives in Chinese and the structural theory of predication International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:2, pp. 179–200 | Article
Based on her conception that the subject is the least droppable NP in a clause, and that object position is generated only because the thematic structure of the predicator requires it, Rothstein (1995, 2001, 2006) proposes a structural theory of predication whereby predication is a syntactic… read more