Lixin Jin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lixin Jin plays a role.
Articles
2024 Exploring absolutive case in reversible sentence structures of Mandarin Chinese , Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1, pp. 34–71 | Article
This paper examines the absolutive case in Modern Mandarin Chinese sentences with reversible argument structures. In these sentences, the two arguments adjacent to the verb can be interchangeable in syntactic position. Although previous research has provided partial descriptions and analyses of… read more
2021 Perfective aspect and perfect aspect: The case of Russian and Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:2, pp. 177–203 | Article
The “perfective” (Chinese term: wánzhěngtǐ) and the “perfect”(Chinese term: wánchéngtǐ) seem to be two different terms that are distinguished by definition. But in the description of actual languages, the boundary between them is not clear. The use of these two terms in many literatures is very… read more