Jiajin Xu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jiajin Xu is involved.
2025 Assessing the potential of using large language models for pragmatic annotation of historical texts: A case of epistemic stance in Early Modern English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3, pp. 406–437 | Article
This study investigates the viability of using large language models (llms) to conduct pragmatic annotations of historical texts. The investigation employs a small corpus of witness depositions and compares Claude 3.5 Sonnet — an llm that excels in reasoning over text — with two human annotators… read more
2023 Dative alternation in Chinese: A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:4, pp. 559–585 | Article
This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors significantly affected the choice of dative variants in Chinese, including the animacy, pronominality, and… read more
2015 Corpus-based Chinese studies: A historical review from the 1920s to the present Chinese Language and Discourse 6:2, pp. 218–244 | Article
This article reviews corpus-based Chinese studies, both applied and theoretical, from the 1920s to the present. It will be shown that, while corpus-based Chinese studies have been gaining momentum for only the last couple of decades, the roots of Chinese corpus linguistics go all the way back to… read more
Metaphorical polysemy and cognitive mechanism of tactile terms: Behavioral profiling of the modern Chinese lexeme yìng ‘hard’ Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the metaphorical polysemy and cognitive mechanism of tactile terms through a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese lexeme yìng (硬, ‘hard’), an area that remains less explored than visual terms among sensory vocabulary. Using a corpus-based behavioral profile methodology,… read more