Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu plays a role.
Articles
2019 The syntactic categories of adverbials in Isbukun Bunun Concentric 45:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
This paper examines the morpho-syntactic properties of elements that realize adverbial meanings in Isbukun Bunun and investigates how its adverbs are syntactically represented. I show that most adverbial meanings are realized as verbs in this language, with only a few adverbial expressions… read more
2018 Deriving sluicing-like constructions in Isbukun Bunun Language and Linguistics 19:4, pp. 635–662 | Article
This paper investigates the sluicing-like constructions (SLCs) in Isbukun Bunun, a language which always places its wh-words at the left-peripheral position, and it is argued that genuine sluicing is not available in this language. The evidence in favor of the pseudo-sluicing analysis draws on… read more
2016 On the (non)-existence of verb-stranding ellipsis in Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1, pp. 79–100 | Article
This paper develops the empirical and theoretical basis for the necessity in admitting the operation of verb-stranding ellipsis (VVPE) in Chinese. I present new arguments showing that, though two analytic possibilities — null argument analysis and VVPE analysis — are in principle available in the… read more