Henry Y. Chang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Henry Y. Chang plays a role.
Articles
2022 On the emergence of a nonhuman bound pronoun in Tsou and its implications International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:1, pp. 108–142 | Article
This paper investigates the extension of a third person human bound pronoun to cover a nonhuman function and its implications for the grammar of pronouns in the Formosan language Tsou. It is found that (i) the newly derived bound pronoun can encode not only a place or an animal but also a time;… read more
2010 On the syntax of Formosan adverbial verb constructions Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis (eds.), pp. 183–212 | Article
This paper deals with the adverbial verb construction (AVC) in Formosan languages. Three major issues concerning the AVC are addressed: (i) What syntactic relationship is involved in the AVC: Adjunction or complementation? (ii) What syntactic operation is taking place in the AVC: Control or… read more