Xiao Han

List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiao Han is involved.

Article

Han, Xiao and Fangqiong Zhan 2023 A study on the semantic change of the Chinese negative adverb Bùshèn ( 不甚 ) Lexical semantics towards the big-data era, Liu, Meichun and Chunyu Kit (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Article

This paper aims to account for the multiple interpretations of the Chinese negative degree adverb bùshèn (不甚). In Xiandai Hanyu Dacidian Shangce (Modern Chinese Dictionary Volume I) (Ruan & Guo (eds) 2009), bùshèn is defined as ‘the degree is not very high’, which can be interpreted as ‘not… read more