Nini Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nini Li is involved.
Articles
2023 What makes the blocking effect happen? Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:1, pp. 76–100 | Article
This study illustrates that for the Chinese bare form reflexive ziji ‘self’, feature conflicts can cause both the local binding blocking effect and the long-distance binding blocking effect. To make long-distance binding possible, a feature-matching requirement between the long-distance… read more
2022 The construction of Chinese pedagogical grammar system Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:3, pp. 211–237 | Article
This paper explores two sets of criteria used to construct pedagogical grammar systems both in English and Chinese. Larsen-Freeman (2001, 2014) built a three-dimensional grammar framework to guide English teachers in constructing an approach to teaching grammar. The three dimensions are… read more