Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar
Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
[Not in series, 210] 2017. viii, 329 pp.
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng plays a role.
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Subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
2022 Place and distance: Locative expressions in Mandarin and Cantonese New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 77–110 | Chapter
The topic of this chapter is locatives containing a measure expression (like the English 60 yards behind the palace) in Mandarin and Cantonese. More generally, it is about the structure of locative PPs. The hypothesis in Terzi (2010), which says that locatives are modifiers to an N Place (which… read more
2020 Revisiting donkey anaphora in Mandarin Chinese: A reply to Pan and Jiang (2015) International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:2, pp. 167–186 | Article
In their article published in this journal, Pan and Jiang (2015) challenge the claims and proposals made in Cheng and Huang (1996) concerning both the distributional patterns and interpretive strategies for donkey anaphora in Mandarin conditional. They claim that all three types of conditionals… read more
2019 Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
Mandarin wh-words such as shénme are wh-indeterminates, which can have interrogative interpretations (‘what’) or non-interrogative interpretations (i.e., ‘something’), depending on the context and licensors. For example, when diǎnr (‘a little’) appears right in front of a wh-word, the string can… read more
2014 The problems of adverbs in Zulu Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics, Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.), pp. 42–59 | Article
Adverbs in Durban Zulu appear to have contradictory properties. On the one
hand, when they appear with intransitive verbs, they phrase prosodically with
the verb, just like direct objects. On the other hand, adverbs which appear with
transitive verbs are like typical adjuncts, which are adjoined… read more
2013 Clefts in Durban Zulu Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 141–164 | Article
In this paper, we argue that clefts in Zulu have a bipartite structure: a copular sentence with an adjoined DP/clause. This structure accounts for the prosody of clefts. Each constituent is parsed into a separate Intonation Phrase by the independently motivated phrasing algorithm of Zulu. It also… read more
2010 Cantonese as a tense second language Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 73–80 | Article
2008 How universal is the Universal Grinder? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008, Koppen, Marjo van and Bert Botma (eds.), pp. 50–62 | Article
2007 Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese The Copy Theory of Movement, Corver, Norbert and Jairo Nunes (eds.), pp. 151–174 | Chapter
This chapter examines the ambiguity in resultative constructions with verb copying in Mandarin Chinese (resultative de-clauses and resultative compounds) and argues that the ambiguity is the result of two different derivations, which have in common the fact that more than one copy of the verb is… read more
2003 Forked modality Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, Cornips, Leonie and Paula Fikkert (eds.), pp. 13–23 | Article
2000 Moving Just the Feature Wh-Scope Marking, Lutz, Uli, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow (eds.), pp. 77–99 | Article
1998 On Dummy Objects and the Transitivity of Run Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 81–93 | Article
1996 Negative particle questions: A dialectal comparison Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 41–78 | Article
1993 External Arguments in Basque Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics, Hualde, José Ignacio and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), pp. 71–87 | Article