Xuhui Hu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xuhui Hu is involved.
Articles
2026 Advanced second language performance and influencing factors from the perspective of feature reassembly: A meta-analysis Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
This meta-analysis examines advanced second language (L2) performance from the perspective of feature reassembly, investigating how reassembly requirements, overtness, and methodological factors influence acquisition difficulty. We synthesized 25 empirical studies yielding 38 effect sizes… read more
2025 Multifunctionality and contextual realization: A case study in Yixing Chinese Linguistic Variation 25:1, pp. 1–42 | Article
This paper aims to make a contribution to the study of the nature of syntactic categories by analysing a single element in a single language, namely the marker -lao in Yixing Chinese. Although this marker has previously been analysed as an adjectivaliser (Hu and Perry 2018), we show that it has… read more
2022 Property, possession, and adjectives A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives, Panagiotidis, Phoevos and Moreno Mitrović (eds.), pp. 187–216 | Chapter
This paper rethinks the nature of possessive property concept (PC) construction which provides an account for the cross-linguistic variation regarding the constructions of possessive strategy and adjectival predication for the expression of PC predication. It is argued that the possessive PC… read more