Hui-Chin Tsai
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hui-Chin Tsai is involved.
Articles
2020 Left is right, right is not: On the constituency of the classifier phrase in Chinese Language and Linguistics 21:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
This paper argues for the left-branching constituency of the Chinese classifier phrase and demonstrates that the right-branching approach assumed by the majority of current syntactic works is not viable. The rejection of the right-branching approach entails the rejection of the “split” approach,… read more
2015 Justifying silent elements in syntax: The case of a silent numeral, a silent classifier, and two silent nouns in Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:2, pp. 193–226 | Article
This paper demonstrates in the Mandarin construction with a numeral (Num), classifier (CL) or measure word (MW), and a noun (N), each can be a silent element (SE). A multiplicative function exists between Num and CL/MW. Num as a multiplier one is redundant and can be silent. CL, whose multiplicand… read more