Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen plays a role.

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Concentric (ConSL)

Edited by Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen and Jen Ting

ISSN 1810-7478 | E-ISSN 2589-5230

Articles

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Huang, Pei-Wen and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen 2022 Degree adverbs in spoken Mandarin: A behavioral profile corpus‑based approach to language alternatives Concentric 48:2, pp. 285–322 | Article
Managing near-synonymous morphosyntactic constructions in language is often at the core of a speaker’s grammatical competence. This study investigates the usage patterns of four near-synonymous degree adverb constructions (i.e., hěn, tài, mán, and chāo) in the Taiwan Mandarin Corpus in TalkBank.… read more
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Su, Hung-Kuan and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen 2019 Conceptualization of containment in Chinese: A corpus-based study of the Chinese space particles lǐ, nèi, and zhōng  Concentric 45:2, pp. 211–245 | Article
This study investigates the semantic variations of three near-synonymous space particle constructions of containment in Chinese: [zài NP lǐ/nèi/zhōng]. While previous work has mostly applied qualitative analyses of the semantic differences between these particles, this study presents a… read more