Mei-chun Liu

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mei-chun Liu plays a role.

Articles

Liu, Mei-chun 2010 Emergence of the indefinite article: Discourse evidence for the grammaticalization of yige in spoken MandarinFormal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 275–288 | Article
This study explores the grammaticalization of a frequently used numeral classifier yige into a marker of indefiniteness in spoken Taiwan Mandarin. Naturally-occurring data show that yige is frequently used to introduce a newly-mentioned but unfamiliar referent into the discourse and its… read more
Liu, Mei-chun 2000 Reciprocal marking with deictic verbs “come” and “go” in MandarinReciprocals: Forms and functions, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Traci Walker (eds.), pp. 123 ff. | Article