Jun Chen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jun Chen plays a role.

Articles

This paper analyzes a hitherto unnoticed semantic change process in Chinese, in which superlative operators emerge from lexical (adjectival) materials, and subsequently turn into definiteness markers. Our analysis focuses on the compositional semantics that underlies this meaning change trajectory.… read more
This paper investigates the semantics of an understudied Mandarin numeral construction type, here dubbed da-NumPs (i.e. number word < da ‘big’ < noun). Drawing primarily upon evidence from online Mandarin corpora, we argue for a taxonomy of this construction that comprises two distinct… read more