Chao Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chao Li plays a role.
Articles
2020 Causer and causee as two higher-ranked thematic roles Language and Linguistics 21:4, pp. 604–638 | Article
On the basis of the argument realization of Mandarin resultative verb compounds, this paper argues that the Proto-Agent properties as well as the Proto-Patient properties proposed by Dowty (1991) are not equal in status. Specifically, the Proto-Agent property corresponding to the Causer and the… read more
2018 Argument realization of psychological verbs Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 755–797 | Article
By using data from nearly thirty languages of various families and regions, this paper examines the argument realization of three types of psychological verbs (i.e. causative bivalent, non-causative bivalent, and monovalent). It finds that, when compared with the argument realization of core… read more
2015 Competing motivations and ditransitive encoding and ordering Studies in Language 39:2, pp. 322–353 | Article
The paper proposes that the three main ditransitive alignment patterns result from the competition between the Event Construal Constraint (ECC) motivated from event semantics and the Animacy(/Definiteness) Hierarchy Constraint (AHC) motivated from inherent role properties. The ECC and the AHC… read more