National Tsing Hua University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with National Tsing Hua University*

Titles

The internal context of bilingual processing

Edited by John Truscott & Michael Sharwood Smith

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Consciousness research | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. | monograph

Media Discourse in Greater China: Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication volume 19:2 (2009)

Edited by Sai-hua Kuo & Doreen D. Wu

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 19:2] 2009. | special issue

Hypothetical Modality: Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect

Debra Ziegeler

Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 51] 2000. xx, 290 pp. | monograph

Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan & Ching-Yu Helen Yang 2026 On the inner-outer dichotomy of A-not-A questions: A minimalist-cartographic account

In: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] pp. 262–280

Wang, Wen-Jet Peter & Chen-Sheng Luther Liu 2026 Boosting LLM performance with generative question-answer pairs via Wh‑transformation

Keywords: question-answer pairs | generative grammar | wh-transformation | 問答組、生成語法、疑問詞移位

Concentric 52:1 pp. 119–159 | article

Lin, Tzong-Hong Jonah & Pin-Jie Jeff Chen 2026 On the “transitive” use of ma- in Siraya

Keywords: Formosan languages | Siraya | nominativeless construction | genitive case | oblique case

Diachronica 43:4 pp. 592–599 | article

Yeh, Marie Meili 2026 Problems in speaking and case marking: Self-initiated self-repair in Saisiyat narratives

Keywords: ka | grammar and discourse | usage-based grammar | speech production | formulation difficulty | Austronesian linguistics | ka | 語法與言談 | 使用導向語法 | 話語產出 | 表述困難 | 南島語言學

Chinese Language and Discourse 17:2 pp. 259–279 | article

Lien, Chinfa 2026 台灣閩南語中非典型賓語: 準語意併入 [Non-canonical objects in Taiwanese Southern Min]

Keywords: 非典型賓語 | 準語意併入 | 詞法模組 | 顯著性 | non-canonical object | pseudo-semantic incorporation | morphology module | saliency

Language and Linguistics 27:3 pp. 424–447 | article | open access

Liu, Hsiu-Hsueh 2026 閩南語e音量詞解析—從金門話談起 [On e-sound measure words in Minnan language: A Kinmenese perspective]

Keywords: 做一下 | 動量詞 | 分類詞 | 詞彙方言差 | tsuè tsi̍t-ē | verbal measure words | classifier | dialectal lexical variation

Language and Linguistics 27:3 pp. 448–476 | article | open access

Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan 2025 A guide to construct non-canonical wh-questions: A cross-linguistic perspective

Keywords: causality hierarchy | force shift | non-canonical wh-questions | prosodic syntax | syntax-pragmatic interface | 使事階級 | 念力移轉 | 非典疑問句 | 韻律語法 | 句法─語用介面

Concentric 51:2 pp. 179–202 | article | open access

Chou, C.-T. Tim & Trần Phan 2025 Vietnamese mình : Attitudes, empathy and the blocking effect

Keywords: long-distance anaphor | Vietnamese | blocking effect | attitude holder | empathy locus

Language and Linguistics 27:1 pp. 1–52 | article | open access

Chen, Shu-chuan 2025 台灣混合腔閩南語通行語化的探討: ──漳泉融合的多種樣態 [An exploration of the Koineization of hybrid accents in Taiwanese Hokkien]

Keywords: 台灣普通腔 | 混合腔 | 漳泉濫 | 文白分讀 | 通行語化 | 方言平整化 | General Taiwanese | hybrid accent | koineization | dialect leveling | Zhang-Quan hybridization | division between literary and colloquial reading

Language and Linguistics | Online First Publication, 33 pp. | article | open access

Meisterernst, Barbara 2024 The diachronic development of postverbal dé 得 in Chinese

Keywords: grammaticalisation | modal verbs | Late Archaic Chinese | Early Middle Chinese

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] pp. 260–282

Huang, Han-Chun 2023 On the general classifiers ge and zàg in Hakka: A corpus-based collostructional analysis

Keywords: general classifier | collocational strength | collostructional analysis | Hakka | 泛用分類詞 | 搭配強度 | 搭配結構分析 | 客語

Concentric 49:2 pp. 261–294 | article | open access

Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan & Ching-Yu Helen Yang 2022 On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

In: New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 431–444

Lien, Chinfa 2022 Formation and constraints of scalar structure in Taiwanese Southern Min

Keywords: scalar structure | Taiwanese | formation | constraints

Language and Linguistics 23:4 pp. 710–742 | article | open access

Lien, Chinfa 2022 Interpreting the eventive copula 做 tso³ in Taiwanese Southern Min

Keywords: copula | small clause | Taiwanese Southern Min | event

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:2 pp. 155–174 | article

Meisterernst, Barbara 2022 The negative cycle in Chinese: From synthetic to analytic and back to synthetic negation?

Keywords: negation | synthetic | analytic | linguistic cycle | Chinese

Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:1 pp. 35–81 | article

Hsin, Shih-chang, Jingying Rui & Keqin Zhou 2022 漢語考試大綱詞表和語料庫詞頻的反向檢視研究: 以典型初級國際漢語教材詞彙為例 [Reverse inspection on vocabulary frameworks of Chinese tests and word frequency in corpus]

Keywords: 漢語國際教育 | 初級教材 | 生詞 | 詞頻 | 詞彙分級 | Chinese as a second language | textbook for beginners | vocabulary | word frequencies | levels of vocabulary

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:2 pp. 154–183 | article

Yew, Boon Hock 2022 上古漢語「且」的來源及發展 [On the sources and developments of qie 且 in Old Chinese]

Keywords: 且 | 遞進 | 轉折 | 未來時 | 選擇 | qie | additive | adversative | future | alternative

Language and Linguistics 23:3 pp. 521–568 | article | open access

Lau, Seng-Hian & Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai 2021 Attitudinal applicative in action

Keywords: attitudinal applicatives | Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) | applicative pronoun | causative/passive marker of hōo | affectee argument | speaker-oriented construal

In: Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] pp. 243–260

Hsieh, I-Ta Chris 2021 On reciprocal degree constructions: A view from Mandarin

Keywords: reciprocal (in)equative | degree plurality | plural predication | tolerance of exceptions

Language and Linguistics 22:2 pp. 272–301 | article | open access

Yeh, Jui-chuan 2021 現代台灣客語與「分佢」相關的致使結構之語法和語意特點 [On the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the bun¹gi⁵ -related causative constructions in modern Taiwanese Hakka]

Keywords: 客語 | 分佢 | 結果式 | 致使結構 | 雙賓結構 | Hakka | bun1gi5 | resultative | causative construction | double object construction

Language and Linguistics 22:3 pp. 475–512 | article | open access

Lau, Seng-Hian & Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai 2020 A comparative study of how and why in Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: wh-adverbials | non-canonical questions | Southern Min

Language and Linguistics 21:2 pp. 254–284 | article | open access

Liou, Mei-Ling Teresa & Chen-Sheng Luther Liu 2020 An analysis of focus and its role in the answering systems of polar questions in Chinese and English

Keywords: negative polar questions | ma particles | answering particles | focus | syntax

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1 pp. 45–70 | article

Lien, Chinfa 2020 Aspectual particles and event types in TSM

Keywords: aspectual particles | event types | additive | concessive | Taiwanese Southern Min

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:2 pp. 270–296 | article

Meisterernst, Barbara 2020 Possibility and necessity and the scope of negation in Early Middle Chinese

Keywords: Late Archaic | Middle Chinese | Modal verbs | Negation | Scope | Grammaticalization

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1 pp. 1–44 | article

Liu, Hsiuhsueh 2020 閩南語元音演變路徑與觸發因素 [On triggers and derivation trail of vowel change in Southern Min]

Keywords: 閩南語 | 元音演變 | 語言接觸 | 語言優勢 | 離散分布理論 | Southern Min | vowel change | dialect contact | language dominance

Language and Linguistics 21:3 pp. 408–442 | article | open access

Chou, Chao-Ting Tim, Tsung-Ying Chen & Acrisio Pires 2020 Acquisition of null objects in Mandarin Chinese by heritage speakers: Syntax-pragmatics interface knowledge without inflectional morphology

Keywords: null objects | syntax-pragmatics interface | Mandarin Chinese | heritage speakers

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:2 pp. 223–269 | article

Hsieh, I-Ta Chris 2019 Q-adjectives in Mandarin and the interpretation of nominal phrases

Keywords: measurement of quantity | Q-adjective | degree construction | ellipsis

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:1 pp. 46–75 | article

Hoang, Dung & Tran Phan 2019 Gender in Vietnamese

Keywords: semantic gender | gender-marking | gender bias | social hierarchy | socio-cultural encoding | pejoration | amelioration | semantic shift

In: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Vietnamese linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan & Tue Trinh (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] pp. 253–274

Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan 2019 Causality, comitativity, contrastivity, and selfhood: A view from the left periphery and the vP periphery

In: Interfaces in Grammar, Hu, Jianhua & Haihua Pan (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 15] pp. 101–132

Jheng, Wei-Cherng Sam 2018 On the syntax-discourse interface of nonsententials in Mandarin: A cartographic solution

Keywords: nonsententials | speech act layer | discourse particles | sentence-final particles | Mandarin

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:2 pp. 252–305 | article

Lien, Chinfa 2017 The emergence of e⁵ khuan² 个款 as a sensory evidential marker in TSM

Keywords: evidential marker | functional categories | particles | TSM

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 4:2 pp. 173–190 | article

Lien, Chinfa 2015 Formation of the experiential aspect marker Pat4 識: Contact-induced grammatical change in Southern Min

Keywords: negative; interrogative reinforcement | Southern Min | experiential aspect

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:2 pp. 273–299 | article

Hsu, Chun-Chieh & Jenn-Yeu Chen 2013 How linear distance and structural distance affect the processing of gap-filler dependencies in head-final relative clauses: An eye-tracking study on Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: eye-trackin | filler-gap dependency | linear distance | Mandarin Chinese | structural distance

In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] pp. 247–270

Radetzky, Paula & Tomoko Yamashita Smith 2010 An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions

In: Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando & Seppo Kittilä (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 92] p. 97

Kuo, Sai-hua & Doreen D. Wu 2009 Media discourse in Greater China

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 pp. 173–178 | article

Kuo, Sai-hua 2009 Multilingualism, multiculturalism, and multiple identities: Analyzing linguistic hybridization in Taiwanese newspaper headlines

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 pp. 239–258 | article

Kuo, Sai-hua 2007 Language as Ideology: Analyzing Quotations in Taiwanese News Discourse

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:2 pp. 281–301 | article

Sharwood Smith, Michael & John Truscott 2008 Full transfer full access: A processing-oriented interpretation

In: Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace & Martha Young-Scholten (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] pp. 201–216

Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan & Melody Yayin Chang 2004 Two types of wh-adverbials: A typological study of how and why in Tsou

Keywords: Tsou | Austronesian syntax | wh-adverbials | neo-Davidsonian approach | wh-adjuncts | syntax–semantics interface

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 3:1 pp. 213–236 | article

Ziegeler, Debra 1998 Review of The Construal of Space in Language and Thought edited by Martin Pütz & René Dirven (1996)

Studies in Language 22:3 pp. 729–739 | book review

Liao, Chia-Hsuan When ‘John broke up Mary’ becomes acceptable: A processing account of the transitive use of intransitive verbs in Mandarin

Keywords: sentence processing | argument structure | transitivization | Mandarin | 語句處理 | 論元結構 | 及物化 | 漢語

Concentric | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Hsieh, I-Ta Chris Embedded reciprocal equatives in Mandarin and semantic weakening

Keywords: reciprocal equative | weakening | exhaustification | modality | attitude report

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics | Online First Publication, 33 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.