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International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Volume 1, Issue 2 (2014)

2014. iii, 167 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 December 2014

© John Benjamins

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.1.2

Table of Contents

Articles
The adjective of quantity duo ‘many/much’ and differential comparatives in Mandarin Chinese Jo-wang Lin	163–191
Left periphery and Chinese yes-no questions Rui-heng Ray Huang	192–213
Preservation and deletion in Mandarin loanword adaptation Tae-Eun Kim	214–243
The pragmatics of existential-presentative constructions in Chinese: A discourse-based study Wendan Li	244–274
Humorous communication in social and political issues: A case study of a Celebrity Imitation Show Hsiao-chu Liang and Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh	275–292
Diachronic extension of Linguistic Inventory Mightiness: Evolution of directional resultative-verb-compounds in Chinese Wenlei Shi	293–324
Book review
Review of Beckett & Postiglione (2011): China’s Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony Reviewed by Youyong Qian	325–329