Gaowa Jing
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gaowa Jing plays a role.
Article
2023 The Multifunctionality of Mandarin Diào 掉: A cross-linguistic perspective Lexical semantics towards the big-data era, Liu, Meichun and Chunyu Kit (eds.), pp. 18–49 | Article
This paper explores the various functions of diào in Mandarin Chinese as it changes from a verb to a phase marker. As a phase marker, diào provides a natural endpoint to a co-occurring event and indicates completion, which is a distinct function from the perfect marker le. In this shift, the… read more