Xinye Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xinye Zhang is involved.
2026 Chapter 3. Using corpora and variationist approaches to make inferences about language representation Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing, Klassen, Gabrielle and John W. Schwieter (eds.), pp. 28–55 | Chapter
As interest in usage-based approaches to multilingualism has grown, researchers have increasingly turned to large data sets (i.e., corpora) of actual language usage to study linguistic phenomena. Exploring multilingual or multidialectal corpora can shed important light on multilingual… read more
2025 Chapter 5. Acquiring sociolinguistic competence: A comparison of subject pronoun expression in L2 and L3 Spanish Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin, Solon, Megan, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad (eds.), pp. 116–142 | Chapter
This paper compares the acquisition of subject pronoun expression in written Spanish by first-language (L1) speakers of English learning Spanish as a second language and L1 speakers of Chinese learning Spanish as a third language. A mixed-effects regression indicated that learners’ choices… read more
2022 Chapter 2. An investigation of the use of the multifunctional particle ‑ le by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Chapter
The most widely studied aspect marker in Chinese is ‑le. In addition to functioning as a perfective aspect marker to indicate action completion, it can also serve as a sentence final particle to indicate a currently relevant state. It is obligatory in some situations but optional in others. And,… read more
Subject pronominal expression in Mandarin: Production patterns and the perception-production relationship Asia-Pacific Language Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates production patterns of Mandarin subject pronoun expression (SPE) and the understudied relationship between evaluative judgments and actual usage of this feature. Building on established perception patterns among 185 native Mandarin speakers, these participants completed… read more