Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.
Zhen Tian
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhen Tian plays a role.
Title
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2020 Introduction. Language, culture and identity: Signs of life Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 1–6
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2019 Chapter 2. On the partial productivity of constructions: Creativity and semantic constraints on the Chinese zhe existential construction Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang (eds.), pp. 73–94
The productive schema of a grammatical construction allows speakers to produce creative utterances. However, the fact that constructions tend to be partially but not fully productive has puzzled scholars for decades. This chapter analyzes the partial productivity of a highly productive… read more | Chapter