Ying Liu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ying Liu plays a role.
Articles
2023 再談漢語「是」字句及幾類相關結構的語義 [The semantics of Mandarin shi -clefts revisited] Language and Linguistics 24:3, pp. 469–501 | Article
本文通過兩項實證性的研究，再談漢語分裂式「是」句及幾類相關結構的語義。研究發現(i)不同於Paul & Whitman (2008)、Cheng (2008)等分析，句首、句中「是」字句以及「是」字句和「是……的」結構在焦點標記方式和窮盡性的表達等分裂句相關語義屬性上具有一致性，因此應該進行統一化的處理。(ii)分裂式「是」字句的核心語義表達唯一性識別，其預設焦點候選項集合中有且只有一個唯一為真的候選項並斷言其自身表達的命題(prejacent)為真。「是」字句的窮盡性來自於預設和斷言共同作用下的語義推理，而對比性則來自於語篇在此基礎上的進一步限制作用。 read more
2020 Cross-linguistic influence of L2 on L1 in late Chinese-English bilinguals: The case of subject realisation Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Yuan, Boping and Yanyu Guo (eds.), pp. 290–315 | Article
Cross-linguistic influence studies usually investigate how the bilingual’s first language (L1) influences the acquisition and use of their second language (L2) within the L2 context. This study, by contrast, investigates how the bilingual’s L2 may influence their L1 within the L1 environment,… read more