Haowen Jiang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Haowen Jiang plays a role.

Article

Cover not available
Jiang, Haowen 2013 Appearances are not skin deep: On the status of de yangzi as an inferential marker in colloquial Mandarin discourse Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1, pp. 35–73 | Article
This paper investigates the functions of a previously neglected collocation, the nominalizer 的 de and the noun 樣子 yàngzi ‘appearance’ (DYZ) in colloquial Mandarin discourse. DYZ is shown to be either denotational or non-denotational. In the denotational use, yàngzi denotes various entity concepts,… read more