Tong Wu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tong Wu plays a role.
Articles
2021 类型学视角下汉语的双系式结构 [A typological analysis on the applicative construction in Mandarin Chinese]: 共时与历时 [Synchrony and diachrony] International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:1, pp. 139–168 | Article
类型学发现，典型的双系式（applicative）结构将宾语（直接宾语或间接宾语）这个句法角色指派给一个本来不能作宾语的项。本文证明汉语中以下结构都是类型学中所谓的“双系式”：在共时层面，有普通话中的“吃食堂”结构，自陆俭明、郭锐（1998）提出以来，有诸多学者从不同角度对其进行了研究；在历时层面，上古汉语中有名词（性结构）直接作补语和介词短语作补语交替的现象。汉语虽然是典型的孤立语，（几乎）没有判断双系式的形态依据，但这些结构在语义-句法层面表现出了双系式结构的基本特点，是完全可以归类为双系式结构的。这一结论也为类型学的动词配价（valency）研究打开了新思路， read more
2016 Chinese-style topics as indexicality International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:2, pp. 201–244 | Article
‘Topic’ is one of the most studied and the least understood subjects in Chinese linguistics. One major problem is the so-called ‘Chinese-style topics/ dangling topics’. Shi (2000) was the first to establish a typology of Chinese-style topics. Later studies were primarily concerned with the… read more