Hung-Kuan Su
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hung-Kuan Su is involved.
Articles
2022 Expressing the existence of an event with ‘ you (to have) + VP’ in Taiwan Mandarin: A corpus-based investigation Concentric 48:2, pp. 249–284 | Article
The verb you ‘to have’ in standard Mandarin is typically followed by a noun. You can also take a VP as its complement (‘you + VP’) in several varieties of Mandarin. However, the function associated with it is still under debate: ‘you + VP’ has been analyzed as expressing past tense, perfective… read more
2019 Conceptualization of containment in Chinese: A corpus-based study of the Chinese space particles lǐ, nèi, and zhōng Concentric 45:2, pp. 211–245 | Article
This study investigates the semantic variations of three near-synonymous space particle constructions of containment in Chinese: [zài NP lǐ/nèi/zhōng]. While previous work has mostly applied qualitative analyses of the semantic differences between these particles, this study presents a… read more