Yongxian Luo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yongxian Luo is involved.
2025 Place names in Tai Proper Names, Pan, Chia-Jung and Yang Huang (eds.), pp. 161–182 | Article
Place names form a significant part of proper names in Tai, the largest member of the Kra-Dai family of languages that spread across national boundaries in mainland Southeast Asia which includes Thai, Lao, Shan, Tai Lue, Zhuang, Nung, Buyi, among others. This paper looks at the semantic and… read more
2023 Rethinking basic taste terms: A Chinese perspective Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 422–449 | Article
The general consensus about four basic tastes, sweet, bitter, sour and salty, is rooted in Aristotle’s writings. This inventory was expanded with the addition of umami (or savoury) in the early years of last century, a taste that wasn’t fully scientifically recognized until the mid-1980s. Work… read more
2022 Nominal classification in Zhuang Classifiers, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (ed.), pp. 268–299 | Article
The Zhuang language employs a system of nominal classification, including numeral classifiers, modifier classifiers, class terms, kin prefixes, gender markers, prefixable morphemes for topographic names, among others. Quite often, the same set of morphemes is used as numeral classifiers and with… read more
2015 Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Zhuang Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:1, pp. 3–25 | Article
This paper discusses evidentiality and epistemic modality in Zhuang, a Tai language spoken in South China’s Guangxi Province and surrounding regions. A set of verbs of SPEAKING are found in Zhuang that describe the sources of information. These typically involve the grammaticalised marker nau⁴… read more