Mary S. Erbaugh
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary S. Erbaugh plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798
Articles
2019 How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics: Pressure from ‘the three zeros’ Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1, pp. 84–112 | Article
The Chinese language has encouraged the paradigm shift in linguistics away from Chomsky-style sentence-internal rules toward usage-based discourse. Analysts have debated two possibilities: is Chinese an allegedly ‘inferior’ and ambiguous language because it rests on the ‘three zeros’: zero… read more
2013 Classifier choices in discourse across the seven main Chinese dialects Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 101–126 | Article
Discourse activates classifiers. No classifier, either general or sortal (e.g. CLF:elongated 條 tiao), appears with 44% of Mandarin nouns in descriptions of Chafe’s Pear Stories film (Shanghai Wu 44%, Cantonese 37%). Classifiers only appear for highlighting. General classifiers dominate (53%… read more
1987 Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984, Tomlin, Russell S., pp. 109–130 | Article
