Jie Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jie Cheng plays a role.
Articles
The ambiguity with pa -nominalization in Lhasa Tibetan: A marker-centered account Language and Linguistics 23:4, pp. 644–679 | Article
2022 A tensed clause that undergoes nominalization marked with pa (pa-phrase) in Lhasa Tibetan can give either an event reading or a participant reading. A syntactic analysis of the pa-phrase is conducted by proposing the Differential Nominalizer Hypothesis (DNH). Specifically, pa selects an AspP as… read more
On syntactic intervention in Chinese denominal verbs: A diachronic perspective Diachronica 32:3, pp. 293–330 | Article
2015 The derivation of Chinese denominal verbs has undergone a diachronic shift from freedom in Archaic Chinese to restriction in Post-Archaic Chinese. While denominal verbs in Archaic Chinese can be conveniently accommodated in a pragmatic account, those in Post-Archaic Chinese only yield to a… read more