Xiaolong Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xiaolong Yang plays a role.
Articles
2021 Efficiency in shaping grammars: The case of multiple occurrences of the Chinese reflexive ziji Pragmatics and Society 12:2, pp. 224–242 | Article
Hawkins (1994, 1999, 2004, 2014a) proposes a performance-grammar correspondence hypothesis, claiming that grammars can be shaped by processing systems with reference to the degree of preference in communication. Given that Hawkins’s proposal mainly highlights the role of efficiency in language… read more
2020 On the scope of quantifier phrases in Chinese passive construction International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1, pp. 71–89 | Article
Quantifier phrases (QP) can co-occur in a single sentence, which may cause ambiguity in terms of scope relation, viz. wide scope and narrow scope interpretations. Aoun & Li (1993) claim that quantifier scope ambiguity also exists in Chinese passive construction, such as yige nűren bei meige ren… read more