Ching-Yu Helen Yang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ching-Yu Helen Yang is involved.
Articles
2026 On the inner-outer dichotomy of A-not-A questions: A minimalist-cartographic account New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 262–280 | Chapter
In this article, a fine-grained cartographic analysis of Mandarin A-not-A questions is proposed to account for their interactions with various functional elements along the clausal spine: Inner A-not-A questions are sensitive to certain locality effects in Minimalist terms, whereas outer A-not-A… read more
2026 A new form of Chinese passives: Shou- passives Language and Linguistics 27:1, pp. 134–174 | Article
The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to argue that one type of the Mandarin shou construction can be treated as a new form of passive construction (the shou-passive); and (2) to explore how it differs from the Chinese bei-passive. In previous studies, the shou construction has been treated… read more
2022 On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 431–444 | Chapter
This chapter proposes a unified analysis of Mandarin miratives in terms of their syntax and pragmatics. We examine the rather curious behavior of sentential adverbs such as yuanlai ‘turn out’ and zenme ‘how come’ in conjunction with the sentence final particle a. Specifically, the construals in… read more