Keding Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Keding Zhang is involved.
2022 Review of Wen & Taylor (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2, pp. 429–437 | Review
2017 Frames of reference and the encoding of spatial location in Mandarin Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:2, pp. 355–376 | Article
This article attempts to account for how the static spatial relations of location between objects are encoded in Mandarin Chinese with Levinson’s notions of frames of reference and Talmy’s concept of Figure-Ground relations as theoretical guidance. Space is relational in nature, and spatial… read more
2016 Mandarin existential construction as a reference-point construction: Its cognitive properties and discursive functions Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:1, pp. 91–112 | Article
All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express existential relations, but such means may vary from language to language. For instance, the existential construction in English is usually introduced by the so-called dummy word there whereas such a construction in… read more
2014 A Cognitive Grammar approach to the SLocPAdjC in Mandarin Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 218–235 | Article
SLocPAdjC (Locative subject + adjective-predicate construction) is an idiosyncratic construction in Mandarin Chinese. It has its own specific structural and cognitive properties which are different from those of other constructions. Its structural properties are that it has locative phrases as its… read more