Liching Livy Chiu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Liching Livy Chiu plays a role.
Articles
2023 近義詞的詞彙語義互補性 [The complementary lexical semantics of adverb synonyms]: 以相異面向之四組副詞為例 [The case of four pairs of distinct adverbs] Lexical semantics towards the big-data era, Liu, Meichun and Chunyu Kit (eds.), pp. 160–192 | Article
本文探討機率副詞「也許、可能」、時間副詞「曾經、已經」、強調副詞「真是、實在是」，以及語氣副詞「難道、究竟」，以上四組近義詞的語法語義特點，以及搭配的句式和助詞。筆者認為近義詞的難點在於辨析各組語義徵性，甚至母語者也不理解細微的語義差異，而這四組副詞恰巧對應到副詞的四個語義面向，因此別具代表性。本篇研究發現副詞近義詞間的「互補性」非常重要：一、機率副詞「也許」的主觀性、直觀性比「可能」較強，情態副詞「可能」需要推測的依據與條件，「也許」則無心理預測、真值性較低；二、時間副詞「已經」表動貌時，皆以現在時的觀點，時間參照點可移動，句子的命題為已然狀態。而「曾經」的時間參照點永遠是現在， read more
2018 PF deletion within Chinese DPs International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:2, pp. 226–251 | Article
The aim of this paper is to study the empty categories which may exist inside the Chinese DP domain. The primary discussion concerns an empty category which results from the deletion of NP. This paper introduces a novel observation that equation sentences with a “Modifier- Empty-NP” object can… read more