Bin Zhu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bin Zhu is involved.
Articles
2018 The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives: A constructionist perspective New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 361–380 | Chapter
In this paper, we trace from a constructionist perspective the diachronic development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators meaning roughly ‘let alone’ derived from a prohibitive expression ‘don’t say’. We argue that a construction schema formed by the combination of a prohibitive marker… read more