Chao Li

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chao Li is involved.

Title

A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives

Chao Li

The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.

Articles

Li, Chao 2020 Causer and causee as two higher-ranked thematic roles Language and Linguistics 21:4, pp. 604–638 | Article

On the basis of the argument realization of Mandarin resultative verb compounds, this paper argues that the Proto-Agent properties as well as the Proto-Patient properties proposed by Dowty (1991) are not equal in status. Specifically, the Proto-Agent property corresponding to the Causer and the… read more

Li, Chao 2018 Argument realization of psychological verbs Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 755–797 | Article

By using data from nearly thirty languages of various families and regions, this paper examines the argument realization of three types of psychological verbs (i.e. causative bivalent, non-causative bivalent, and monovalent). It finds that, when compared with the argument realization of core… read more

Li, Chao 2015 Competing motivations and ditransitive encoding and ordering Studies in Language 39:2, pp. 322–353 | Article

The paper proposes that the three main ditransitive alignment patterns result from the competition between the Event Construal Constraint (ECC) motivated from event semantics and the Animacy(/Definiteness) Hierarchy Constraint (AHC) motivated from inherent role properties. The ECC and the AHC… read more