Xiaolong Lu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiaolong Lu is involved.
Articles
2024 What can the taxonomy of predicative possession in Malwai Punjabi tell us? A cognitive linguistics approach Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2, pp. 370–401 | Article
The study aims to examine the syntactic and semantic behaviors of predicative possession (i.e., have-possessive constructions) in Malwai Punjabi, an underdocumented dialect within the Indo-Aryan language family. Data were collected from longitudinal online interviews with native speakers as… read more
2022 The constructionalization of antonymous compounds: Evidence from the adverb chi-zao in Mandarin Chinese Concentric 48:1, pp. 30–69 | Article
In modern Chinese, the adverb chi-zao is regarded as an adjective-adjective compound, with morphemes chi ‘late’ and zao ‘early’ as extreme poles in a gradable temporality. The formation of chi-zao as an antonymous compound has not received much attention from a diachronic construction grammar… read more