Rui-heng Ray Huang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rui-heng Ray Huang plays a role.
Articles
2023 On the syntax of assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics 24:2, pp. 269–301 | Article
Assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese are special in that they often read like passives. With this in mind, the goal of this paper is twofold. First, I aim to compare assigning you constructions with typical passive constructions of bei in Mandarin Chinese. Second, I attempt to seek an… read more
2020 Deriving Chinese alternative questions: Feature percolation and LF movement Concentric 46:2, pp. 206–239 | Article
This study proposes an approach which derives Chinese alternative questions by means of feature percolation and LF movement. This approach is argued to fare better than a movement approach as proposed by C.-T. Huang (1998) and a non-movement binding approach as proposed by R.-H. Huang (2010) in… read more
2014 Left periphery and Chinese yes-no questions International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1:2, pp. 192–213 | Article
Assuming the cartographic approach (Rizzi 1997, 2004; Cinque 1999), this study attempts to map four Chinese yes-no question markers onto the left periphery, including ke/shifou/A-not-A in Mandarin Chinese and kam in Taiwan Southern Min. It is found that while these four markers all represent yes-no… read more