Robert Martin Sanders
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Martin Sanders plays a role.
Article
2012 A syntactic classification of the synchronic use of gěi in Beijing Mandarin: A spoken corpus-based case study of its polyfunctionality Chinese Language and Discourse 3:2, pp. 167–199 | Article
This study fills a gap in the literature on the polyfunctional nature of the Chinese ditransitive verb gěi ‘to give’, which has undergone semantic and functional extensions. Our approach differs from previous studies by focusing on a narrowly defined location in time and space, i.e. contemporary… read more