Aini Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aini Li is involved.
Article
2022 Regional dialect leveling in Mandarin Chinese: The case of locative variation in the Chengdu dialect Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:1, pp. 32–71 | Article
This paper studies the variation that stems from language contact between the suffix ‑tou, a locative marker in the Chengdu dialect spoken in Southwest China, and its standard Chinese counterpart ‑mian. The data are drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with 40 native speakers of the Chengdu… read more
