Xianhui Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xianhui Wang is involved.
Article
2022 Formation of Modern Chinese speech-quotative nǐ shuō ‘you say’ and feedback-seeking nǐ shuō ‘you tell me’: Two grammaticalizational pathways Language and Linguistics 23:4, pp. 743–777 | Article
In Modern Chinese, four construction types involving nǐ shuō may be distinguished. In this study, it is argued that the prosodically unseparated speech-quotative nǐ shuō (S1) develops from the prosodically separated speech-quotation nǐ shuō (S3) through a hypothesized complementation pathway… read more
