Liu Yang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Liu Yang is involved.
Articles
2025 A feature-based approach to nominal predicates Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
This article proposes a feature-based model to derive nominal predicates. I take the position that nouns denote abstract properties and can enter the derivation readily being definite via bearing uniqueness presuppositions. The countability feature [+Count] on the classifier turns abstract… read more
2010 Cultural loss in the English translation of Chinese poetry Babel 56:2, pp. 168–185 | Article
Translation is to reproduce the meaning and style of a source language text in a target language text in consideration of the cultural differences. Because of dramatic differences between the cultures, translators have to sacrifice something, such as time, religious connotation, and the wording of… read more