Zhiguo Xie

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhiguo Xie plays a role.

Title

Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective

Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 24:1 (2023) v, 181 pp.
Subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Luo, Qiongpeng, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li 2023 Degrees and grammar: An East Asian perspectiveDegrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective, Luo, Qiongpeng, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li (eds.), pp. 5–35 | Article
In this article, we discuss some fundamental issues as well as several unresolved questions of degree-based theories in contemporary linguistics from the perspective of East Asian languages, with a view to pointing out some directions for future research. We first focus on several controversies… read more
Xie, Zhiguo and Qiongpeng Luo 2019 Degree intensifiers as expressives in Mandarin ChineseThe interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese, Peck, Jeeyoung (ed.), pp. 256–281 | Article
In this paper, we provide an empirical description and a theoretical analysis of the adverbial use of hǎo ‘(lit.) good’, lǎo ‘(lit.) old’, and guài ‘(lit.) strange’ in Mandarin Chinese. The three adverbs represent a small yet theoretically interesting class of lexical items. Because they… read more