Hongdi Ding
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hongdi Ding is involved.
2026 A typological study of rainfall expressions in Sino-Tibetan languages Studies in Language 50:1, pp. 68–108 | Article
This study investigates the encoding strategies and morphosyntax of rainfall expressions across 222 Sino-Tibetan language varieties. The analysis reveals that 76.6% of these varieties encode rainfall events with the argument type, wherein only the argument carries the meteorological meaning,… read more
2024 Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan Language and Linguistics 25:2, pp. 187–233 | Article
This is a typological study of the why-interrogative expressions in Tibeto-Burman languages, or the non-Chinese Sino-Tibetan languages, in Sichuan, southwest China. After examining 22 languages/dialects, the interrogative category of reason is grouped into three types, viz. the distinct… read more
2022 Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:1, pp. 110–150 | Article
This paper describes the interrogative system of Liangshan Yi, a Loloish language spoken in Southwest China, by investigating its two major dialects: Nuosu and Niesu. Ten interrogative categories are addressed, including ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘what’, ‘how many/much’, ‘what kind’, ‘how’, ‘where’,… read more
2019 Chinese-dominant bilingualism: Testing the bilingual competence of ethnic Nuosu Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:2, pp. 280–322 | Article
This research provides quantitative evidence of the decline in Nuosu competence among the young Nuosu generation in Liangshan, Sichuan, China, through a direct comprehensive linguistic measurement of their Nuosu-Chinese bilingual competence. Although the young generation can still speak Nuosu, a… read more
2018 A cross-dialectal analysis of Nuosu adjectival comparative constructions Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1, pp. 45–74 | Article
Current analyses (Hu 2005; Gerner 2013; Liu et al. 2013) of Nuosu adjectival comparative constructions are not observationally adequate because they are only based on the semantic distinction between dimensional adjectives and other adjectives. A better analysis should make a further… read more
Distance-dependent linguistic diffusion from sociocultural centers in China Asian Languages and Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study employs dialectometric methods to test wave theory’s predictions of linguistic diffusion, examining how geographical distance from major sociocultural centers shapes linguistic similarity in China. Analyzing 32 phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic features across 243 locations,… read more