Baorui Xu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Baorui Xu is involved.

Article

Xu, Baorui, Theres Grüter and Bonnie D. Schwartz 2026 The effect of real-world knowledge on the L2 acquisition of English inverse scope New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 74–100 | Chapter

English doubly-quantified sentences such as A boy climbed every tree allow both a surface reading (one particular boy climbed every tree) and an inverse reading (every tree was climbed by a (different) boy); the latter reading, by contrast, is not allowed in Mandarin analogues and has repeatedly… read more