Pei-Jung Kuo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pei-Jung Kuo is involved.
Articles
2022 The idiosyncratic preposition zai in Mandarin Chinese and differential argument marking International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:2, pp. 232–265 | Article
In this paper, I focus on the Mandarin spatial preposition zai (‘at’), which can appear in the VP domain, like other spatial prepositions, but which can also appear in the TP domain, where it’s presence or absence is sensitive to the animacy and definiteness properties of its object. I argue… read more
2019 On locative alternation verbs in Mandarin Chinese Concentric 45:2, pp. 141–166 | Article
This paper focuses on both single and compound locative alternation verbs in Mandarin Chinese. First, three particular properties of locative alternation verbs are introduced and compared cross-linguistically with examples from Japanese and English. Next, three properties are explored further and… read more
In this paper, I argue that the auxiliary-like preverbal lai ‘come,’ which frequently appears before purposives in Mandarin Chinese, is actually a light verb located in the v position. The current light v analysis incorporates aspects of previous analyses of bare and gei purposives while… read more