Jiajin Xu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jiajin Xu is involved.
2026 Metaphorical polysemy and cognitive mechanism of tactile terms: Behavioral profiling of the modern Chinese lexeme yìng ‘hard’ Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the metaphorical polysemy and cognitive mechanism of tactile terms through a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese lexeme yìng (硬, ‘hard’), an area that remains less explored than visual terms among sensory vocabulary. Using a corpus-based behavioral profile methodology,… read more
2025 Assessing the potential of using large language models for pragmatic annotation of historical texts: A case of epistemic stance in Early Modern English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3, pp. 406–437 | Article
This study investigates the viability of using large language models (llms) to conduct pragmatic annotations of historical texts. The investigation employs a small corpus of witness depositions and compares Claude 3.5 Sonnet — an llm that excels in reasoning over text — with two human annotators… read more
2023 Dative alternation in Chinese: A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:4, pp. 559–585 | Article
This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors significantly affected the choice of dative variants in Chinese, including the animacy, pronominality, and… read more
2015 Corpus-based Chinese studies: A historical review from the 1920s to the present Chinese Language and Discourse 6:2, pp. 218–244 | Article
This article reviews corpus-based Chinese studies, both applied and theoretical, from the 1920s to the present. It will be shown that, while corpus-based Chinese studies have been gaining momentum for only the last couple of decades, the roots of Chinese corpus linguistics go all the way back to… read more
