Seng-Hian Lau
List of John Benjamins publications for which Seng-Hian Lau plays a role.
2024 On the uses and restrictions of postverbal markers kah, liáu , and tio̍h in Taiwanese Concentric 50:2, pp. 145–200 | Article
In Taiwanese, when a sentence or predicate follows a verb or an adjective, one of three distinct markers (kah, liáu, or tio̍h) usually occurs. Previous investigations have not provided a clear explanation of these markers. This poses difficulties in teaching Taiwanese as a second language and… read more
2021 Negator turned intersubjective speech-act adverbial Concentric 47:1, pp. 113–166 | Article
This study investigates the non-negating negator m̄ in Taiwanese. With respect to its function, this study argues that it is neither an intensifier nor a rhetorical marker. Furthermore, contrary to prevalent intuition, the combination m̄-tō is not parallel to the ostensible cognate bújiù in… read more
2021 Chapter 11. Attitudinal applicative in action Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen and Luigi Rizzi (eds.), pp. 243–260 | Chapter
In this study, we have investigated a rather peculiar attitudinal construal of an applicative pronoun in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), which may well advance our understanding of the split affectivity in Chinese dialects (cf. Tsai 2017), as exemplified below: (1) Guá beh lim hōo i kàu-khuì!… read more
2020 A comparative study of how and why in Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics 21:2, pp. 254–284 | Article
From looking into the same and different properties of how and why between Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese, this paper aims to explain the post-verbal how construction with negative speaker attitude. Based on our observations and findings of the specific usages of sī and leh, we propose… read more