Jidong Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jidong Chen is involved.
Articles
2018 “He killed a chicken, but it didn’t die”: An empirical study of the lexicalization of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs Chinese Language and Discourse 9:2, pp. 136–161 | Article
Mandarin contrasts typologically with English in its lexicalization of state change (Talmy 2000). The majority of Mandarin monomorphemic verbs is moot about or implies a state change, whereas English has many monomorphemic verbs (e.g. kill) that entail a state change. This study investigates… read more
2016 The emergence of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article
This study examines the emergent linguistic properties of the early production of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese. Longitudinal naturalist speech data of one Mandarin-learning child were coded and analyzed for their argument structure from age 1;3 to 3;4, the crucial age for early… read more
2012 “She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding and categorizing placement events in Mandarin Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Article
This paper investigates the lexical semantics of placement verbs in Mandarin. The majority of Mandarin placement verbs are directional verb compounds (e.g., na2-xia4-lai2 ‘take-descend-come’). They are composed of two or three verbs in a fixed order, each encoding certain semantic components of… read more