Taeho Jang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Taeho Jang is involved.
Articles
2014 Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism: Data from Xibe On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 91–108 | Article
In many languages a single morphological category exists that expresses both causative and passive functions. Such “causative/passive isomorphism” appears anomalous from the point of view of much work in linguistic typology in that a causative is often considered a “valence increasing”… read more
2012 Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), pp. 151–176 | Article
Xibe is a Tungus-Manchu language spoken in Xinjiang Uygur [Uighur] Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. In this paper we present a corpusbased study of the structural and discourse-functional behavior of the particle da in spoken Xibe. From a structural perspective, we observe that da may occur… read more
Xibe (Sibe), a Tungusic language spoken by roughly 30,000 people in northwestern China, exhibits a specialized TOPIC+COMMENT construction involving the particle oqi. This paper investigates the origins and discourse-semantic functions of this construction. Drawing on a corpus of 3,531 sentences… read more