Zheng-sheng Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zheng-sheng Zhang is involved.
2016 A multi-dimensional corpus study of mixed compounds in Chinese Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.), pp. 215–238 | Article
Certain mixed compounds, consisting of two synonymous components (one classical and one non-classical), are ideal for investigating lexical stylistics, as they are semantically synonymous but stylistically contrastive with both of their components. They are investigated using Biber’s (1988)… read more
2016 From the Editor Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:3, p. | Article
2013 The classical elements in written Chinese: A multidimensional quantitative study Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 157–180 | Article
There has been a common belief that the presence of classical Chinese elements may be an important characteristic of the written style in modern Chinese. An empirical study employing the multi-feature, multi-dimensional framework for studying register variation (Biber 1988) and the statistical… read more





