Chuanlin Deng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chuanlin Deng plays a role.
Article
2023 Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination? Evidence from Chinese shuō ‘say’ Functions of Language 30:2, pp. 137–158 | Article
When a ‘say’ clause is combined with a quoted-speech clause, one of two hypothetical pathways may be followed: (a) a complementation pathway on which the ‘say’ clause takes the quoted-speech clause as its complement clause and thus becomes its matrix clause; (b) a conjoining pathway which… read more