Meili Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Meili Liu is involved.
Articles
2025 Modeling a network of the ba -constructions in Contemporary Mandarin: A Construction Grammar approach Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Couched within Construction Grammar and through corpus-informed qualitative analysis, this study investigates various types of ba-constructions and their relations in Contemporary Mandarin Chinese to model a network of them. The results show that the ba-constructions have developed into a… read more
2023 The grammaticalization of impossibility: The emergence of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa Language and Linguistics 24:4, pp. 733–763 | Article
This study, based on the analysis of historical corpus data, investigates the diachronic development of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa and establishes implications both for the grammaticalization of modals and for grammaticalization theory in general. Specifically, our study shows the… read more
2022 Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and networks in diachronic Construction Grammar Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 290–297 | Review