Jiao Wang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jiao Wang plays a role.

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Yap, Foong Ha and Jiao Wang 2011 From light noun to nominalizer and more: The grammaticalization of zhe and suo in Old and Middle Chinese Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds.), pp. 61–108 | Article
In this paper, we examine how Chinese light nouns zhe and suo evolved into agent and patient nominalizers respectively. The link between nominalization, relativization and genitivization is explored from a grammaticalization perspective; likewise the frequent relationship between nominalization and… read more