Weiying Chen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Weiying Chen plays a role.
Articles
2017 The Development of Linguistics in China: A study of the contributions of Yuen Ren Chao and Wang Li Historiographia Linguistica 44:1, pp. 1–46 | Article
Prompted by Western science in late 19th century, Chinese linguistics gradually moved to a new direction after two thousand years of philological tradition centered on rhetoric and textual exegesis. Through the intense efforts of a few scholars in the early twenti-eth century, linguistic study… read more
2017 Expressing conditionality in Mandarin: A corpus-based study of rúguǒ and zhǐyào Chinese Language and Discourse 8:1, pp. 95–126 | Article
After a broad overview of Mandarin Chinese conditionality marking, this paper presents a corpus-based analysis of two conditional connectives, rúguǒ and zhǐyào (both translatable as ‘if’), from a syntactic and a cognitive perspective. We examine their use in narrative and informative texts along… read more
2016 Review of Jiaxuan (2015): 《名词和动 词》 Chinese Language and Discourse 7:1, pp. 160–165 | Review