Lu Man

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lu Man plays a role.

Man, Lu and Jeroen van de Weijer 2024 The multiple functions of the reflexive pronoun in TujiaLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 47:1, pp. 140–159 | Article
This paper investigates the functions of the reflexive pronoun ko 53 to 21/to 21 in Tujia, a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language. Apart from being used as a verb object, the reflexive pronoun in Tujia can be used as an intensifier, indicating “self, non-other”, but it can also be used to… read more
Man, Lu, Yu Ma, Jeroen van de Weijer and Zhen Yi 2024 Waning and waxing: The case of comparative marking in TujiaLanguage and Linguistics 25:4, pp. 644–672 | Article
This paper provides a preliminary description of the comparative construction in Tujia (northern dialect; NT), an endangered ergative Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken in China, in the context of the typologically diverse ways in which comparative meaning is expressed. In mono-clauses in NT,… read more
Man, Lu, Yu Ma and Jeroen van de Weijer 2023 The serial verb construction in TujiaLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:1, pp. 72–94 | Article
This paper presents a comprehensive description of the serial verb construction (henceforth SVC) in Tujia. It shows that serial verbs or verb phrases in Tujia are linked by the particle lie 55. lie 55 does not contribute any semantic content to the construction, but only functions as a… read more
Man, Lu, Jeroen van de Weijer and Zhengguang Liu 2019 Nominalization and relativization in Tujia: A crosslinguistic perspectiveLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1, pp. 82–109 | Article
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of nominalization and relativization in Tujia from a typological perspective. We show that there are several nominalizers in Tujia, only two of which are multifunctional: ɕi and ɲie. ɕi can function as a nominalizer, a relativizer, a… read more