Victoria Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Victoria Chen is involved.
Articles
2023 Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlines Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 213–231 | Chapter
We investigated the use of this in a large corpus of headlines gathered from three North American satirical newspapers (The Onion, The Beaverton, and The Babylon Bee). There were 551 instances of this in the corpus, 26 of which were used pronominally but without a clear referent, which we dub… read more
2022 Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian? A view from morphosyntax Diachronica 39:4, pp. 449–489 | Article
An understudied morphosyntactic innovation, reanalysis of the Proto-Austronesian (PAn) stative intransitive prefix *ma- as a transitive affix, offers new insights into Austronesian higher-order subgrouping. Malayo-Polynesian is currently considered a primary branch of Austronesian, with no… read more