Shuanfan Huang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shuanfan Huang is involved.

Journals

Chinese Language and Discourse

An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798

Concentric

Studies in Linguistics

Edited by Miao-Ling Hsieh and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen

ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230

Title

Chinese Grammar at Work

Shuanfan Huang

Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 1] 2013. xii, 458 pp.

Articles

Huang, Shuanfan 2013 Variability and stability in Chinese syntax Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1, pp. 1–34 | Article

In this study I examine a large number of verbalizations in the Chinese Pear narratives and find that for each scene examined there is usually one or at most two favored and stabilized verbalizations, with variability around the stabilized forms. These favored verbalizations are the preferred… read more

Huang, Huei-ju and Shuanfan Huang 2009 Beyond preferred argument structure: The discourse pragmatics of noun phrases in Tsou Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 499–527 | Article

This paper investigates the preferred argument structure in Tsou, and the extent to which such a preference pattern is shaped by the interaction among mention type, valency role and activation status. Two significant findings emerge from the data. Strikingly, Ss and Os in discourse are not the… read more