Fuyin Thomas Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fuyin Thomas Li plays a role.
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Separation events in Mandarin, Russian and Korean: A crosslinguistic event-categorization study Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2, pp. 377–410
2023 Crosslinguistic studies on motion events have revealed that S-languages demonstrate finer-grained lexical categories than V-languages in representing motion manners/gaits. But these studies were restricted to the semantic domain of motion events and confined to a limited number of S- or V-… read more | Article
Review of Lin (2019): Encoding motion events in Mandarin Chinese. A cognitive functional study Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 323–330
2023 Review
The convergence and divergence of extension and intension on semantic change: Evidence from Chinese pò Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2, pp. 438–475
2022 Despite the fact that semantic change studies have intensively argued that intensional readings develop from the literal reading as a whole, diachronic prototype semantics proposes that intensional readings arise from the extensional subsets of the literal reading. This study empirically… read more | Article
Potentials for grammaticalization: Sensitivity to position and event type Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2, pp. 363–402
2021 This paper discusses the grammaticalization of motion verbs in Mandarin. A class of motion verbs in Mandarin that regularly appears at either V1 or V2 position in the V1+V2 construction is only grammaticalized at the V2 position, where the verb becomes a directional complement. We provide a… read more | Article
Pò (‘break’), qiē (‘cut’) and kāi (‘open’) in Chinese: A diachronic conceptual variational approach Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 213–243
2020 This study explores the conceptual boundaries among break, cut and open from an under-investigated diachronic perspective and addresses the diachronic conceptual variations of Chinese pò (‘break’), qiē (‘cut’) and kāi (‘open’). The Center for Chinese Linguistics corpus is employed for the… read more | Article
Evolutionary order of macro-events in Mandarin Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 155–186
2019 This article aims to explore the evolutionary order of the five types of macro-event in Mandarin. As a methodology, a closed corpus is set up for five historical stages. The following is concluded: (1) The “V+C” constructions representing a macro-event started to appear from Stage III and continued… read more | Article