Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng plays a role.
2023 A restructuring analysis of the non‑inferential evidential verb han in Siwkolan Amis Concentric 49:2, pp. 175–223 | Article
This work aims to investigate the morphosyntactic properties of han in Siwkolan Amis and to defend a lexical split of han, one being a lexical category with argument structure and the other a functional category merging to Voice0. I argue that the functional han cannot be analyzed as a quotative… read more
2022 The syntax of nominal modification and complex noun phrases in Siwkolan Amis Concentric 48:1, pp. 70–113 | Article
This work investigates the syntax of nominal modification involving the linker a in Siwkolan Amis, one of the dialects of Amis, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. Based on the two observed types of NP-ellipsis patterns and the formal licensing condition, I argue that Amis displays two… read more
2022 A cartographic view on mood prominence and force in Mandarin: A case of the speaker-oriented adverb zuìhǎo International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:1, pp. 1–48 | Article
This work investigates the division of labor between mood and illocutionary force in syntax by examining three modal construals encoded by the speaker-oriented adverb zuìhǎo ‘best’ (deontic, epistemic and evidential) in Mandarin, and accounts for a cluster of syntactic and pragmatic properties… read more
2018 On the syntax-discourse interface of nonsententials in Mandarin: A cartographic solution International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:2, pp. 252–305 | Article
This paper aims to develop the empirical and theoretical basis for the necessity of motivating a cartographic approach (Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999) to the clausal structure of nonsententials (NSs) in Mandarin. Especially noteworthy about NSs is that they are able to encode clause type information,… read more