Yuzhi Shi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuzhi Shi is involved.

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The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The formation of the resultative construction and its effects

Yuzhi Shi

This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 59] 2002. xiv, 262 pp.

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Shi, Yuzhi 2020 Bidirectional transfers of the ditransitive construction in Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow, Lu, Wei-lun and Jirí Lukl (eds.), pp. 416–439 | Article
The Chinese ditransitive construction expresses the ‘bidirectional’ transfers: the movement of the patient either (a) from the subject to indirect object or (b) from the indirect object to subject, a feature that has not been identified in other languages. This construction is thus different… read more
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