Mei-Chi Tsai
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mei-Chi Tsai plays a role.
Article
2013 Restrictiveness, exclusivity, adversativity, and mirativity: Mandarin Chinese zhishi as an affective diminutive marker in spoken discourse Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 181–228 | Article
Mandarin Chinese zhishi (similar to English ‘only’), comprised of the adverb zhi and the copula shi, can act as an adverb (ADV) or a discourse marker (DM). This study analyzes the role of zhishi in spoken discourse, based on the methodological and theoretical principles of interactional linguistics… read more