Zuoyu Tian

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zuoyu Tian plays a role.

Article

Amaral, Patrícia, Zuoyu Tian, Dylan Jarrett and Juan Escalona Torres 2023 Tracing semantic change in Portuguese: A distributional approach to adversative connectivesJournal of Historical Linguistics 13:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This study uses word embeddings to investigate the semantic changes underlying the creation of two adversative connectives in Portuguese, porém and mas ‘but, however’. For porém, we chart its development from an original PP formed by a preposition with a causal meaning (por) and a demonstrative… read more