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Yap, Foong Ha. 2018. Pathways to adversity and speaker affectedness: On the emergence of unaccusative ‘give’ constructions in Chinese. Linguistics 56 (1) : 19–68.

Yap, Foong Ha. 2018. Evaluative uses of postnominal possessives in Central Mongolian. Journal of Pragmatics 135 : 71–86.

Yap, Foong Ha. 2018. Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo5dei6 (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse. Discourse & Society 29 (6) : 691–715.

Yap, Foong Ha. 2017. Attitudinal nominalizer(s) in Chinese: Evidence of recursive grammaticalization and pragmaticization. Lingua : 1–21.

Yap, Foong Ha. 2016. Chinese interrogative particles as talk coordinators at the right periphery. A discourse–pragmatic perspective. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17 (2) : 178–207.

Yap, Foong Ha. 2015. “Did Obamacare create new jobs?” – An analysis of Mitt Romney’s use of rhetorical questions in the 2012 US presidential election campaign. Text & Talk 35 (5) : 643–668.

Yap, Foong Ha. 2015. “Please continue to be an anime lover”: The use of defamation metaphors in Hong Kong electoral discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 87 : 31–53.