Mei-chun Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mei-chun Liu is involved.
Articles
2010 Emergence of the indefinite article: Discourse evidence for the grammaticalization of yige in spoken Mandarin Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 275–288 | Article
This study explores the grammaticalization of a frequently used numeral classifier yige into a marker of indefiniteness in spoken Taiwan Mandarin. Naturally-occurring data show that yige is frequently used to introduce a newly-mentioned but unfamiliar referent into the discourse and its… read more
2003 Motion, direction and spatial configuration: A lexical semantic study of ‘hang’ verbs in Mandarin Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Shay, Erin and Uwe Seibert (eds.), pp. 177–187 | Article
2000 Reciprocal marking with deictic verbs “come” and “go” in
Mandarin Reciprocals: Forms and functions, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Traci Walker (eds.), pp. 123–132 | Article