Yan Li

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yan Li plays a role.

Journal

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) (CSL)

Edited by Dana Scott Bourgerie

ISSN 2451-828X | E-ISSN 2451-8298

Articles

Li, Yan 2022 Predicting the unpredictable: ‑le used in Chinese serial verb constructions New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 555–574 | Chapter

This study investigates the use of the perfective aspect marker –le in Chinese serial verb constructions through an analysis of 386 serial verb constructions selected from the Sinica Corpus. The analysis takes into account the position of –le, the form of the object co-occurring with –le, and… read more

Li, Yan and Lei Yan 2017 Effects of providing explicit negative evidence on students’ perception of ungrammatical sentences using –le Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:3, pp. 232–254 | Article

This study investigates the effects of the use of explicit negative evidence in teaching on students’ perception of two types of ungrammatical Chinese sentences in which –le should not be used. Two groups of advanced learners of Chinese were pre-tested immediately before receiving instruction that… read more