May L-Y Wong
List of John Benjamins publications for which May L-Y Wong plays a role.
Articles
2020 Mechanisms of semantic change: The case of Cantonese slang Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:2, pp. 251–277 | Article
This paper examines the mechanisms of semantic change in the creation of ten Cantonese slang words. It demonstrates with synchronic evidence that metaphorization, metonymization and (inter)subjectification are three principal driving forces behind the shift in meaning. It is argued that Traugott… read more
2010 “There are many ways to translate it”: Existential constructions in English-Chinese translation Languages in Contrast 10:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
The study is motivated by Mona Baker’s (1992) observation that it is almost impossible to find a grammatical category which can be expressed uniformly and regularly across languages. The aim of the present study is to verify Baker’s claim by investigating existential sentences from an… read more
2009 Gei constructions in Mandarin Chinese and bei constructions in Cantonese: A corpus-driven contrastive study International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:1, pp. 60–80 | Article
This paper examines the use of gei constructions in Mandarin Chinese and bei constructions in Cantonese within three corpora (of spoken and written Chinese and Hong Kong Cantonese). There are seven structural patterns in which gei/VLgei takes two objects. The order of these objects is determined… read more
