Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 8] 2017. xix, 243 pp.
Rui Peng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rui Peng plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Is animation always better for learning Chinese characters? Investigating the effect of animation with text presentations by children learners of Chinese as a foreign language Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 58:1, pp. 61–91 | Article
The present study investigated the effect of animations on Chinese character learning in multimedia presentations. In particular, we examined whether animations focusing on different knowledge of characters would yield different performance among students learning Chinese characters. The role of… read more
2012 Critical frequency as an independent variable in grammaticalization Studies in Language 36:2, pp. 345–381 | Article
In the frequency literature, it has been argued that high text frequency is the motivating factor in grammaticalization. This claim is questionable for two reasons: linguistic items with high frequency do not necessarily undergo grammaticalization, and it is not unusual for grammaticalization to… read more