Jidong Chen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jidong Chen plays a role.
Journal
Articles
“He killed a chicken, but it didn’t die”: An empirical study of the lexicalization of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs Chinese Language and Discourse 9:2, pp. 136–161 | Article
2018 Mandarin contrasts typologically with English in its lexicalization of state change (Talmy 2000). The majority of Mandarin monomorphemic verbs is moot about or implies a state change, whereas English has many monomorphemic verbs (e.g. kill) that entail a state change. This study investigates… read more
The emergence of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2016 This study examines the emergent linguistic properties of the early production of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese. Longitudinal naturalist speech data of one Mandarin-learning child were coded and analyzed for their argument structure from age 1;3 to 3;4, the crucial age for early… read more
“She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding and categorizing placement events in Mandarin Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Article
2012 This paper investigates the lexical semantics of placement verbs in Mandarin. The majority of Mandarin placement verbs are directional verb compounds (e.g., na2-xia4-lai2 ‘take-descend-come’). They are composed of two or three verbs in a fixed order, each encoding certain semantic components of… read more