Hongdi Ding
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hongdi Ding is involved.
2026 A typological study of rainfall expressions in Sino-Tibetan languages Studies in Language 50:1, pp. 68–108 | Article
This study investigates the encoding strategies and morphosyntax of rainfall expressions across 222 Sino-Tibetan language varieties. The analysis reveals that 76.6% of these varieties encode rainfall events with the argument type, wherein only the argument carries the meteorological meaning,… read more
2024 Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan Language and Linguistics 25:2, pp. 187–233 | Article
This is a typological study of the why-interrogative expressions in Tibeto-Burman languages, or the non-Chinese Sino-Tibetan languages, in Sichuan, southwest China. After examining 22 languages/dialects, the interrogative category of reason is grouped into three types, viz. the distinct… read more
2022 Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:1, pp. 110–150 | Article
This paper describes the interrogative system of Liangshan Yi, a Loloish language spoken in Southwest China, by investigating its two major dialects: Nuosu and Niesu. Ten interrogative categories are addressed, including ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘what’, ‘how many/much’, ‘what kind’, ‘how’, ‘where’,… read more
2019 Chinese-dominant bilingualism: Testing the bilingual competence of ethnic Nuosu Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:2, pp. 280–322 | Article
This research provides quantitative evidence of the decline in Nuosu competence among the young Nuosu generation in Liangshan, Sichuan, China, through a direct comprehensive linguistic measurement of their Nuosu-Chinese bilingual competence. Although the young generation can still speak Nuosu, a… read more
2018 A cross-dialectal analysis of Nuosu adjectival comparative constructions Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1, pp. 45–74 | Article
Current analyses (Hu 2005; Gerner 2013; Liu et al. 2013) of Nuosu adjectival comparative constructions are not observationally adequate because they are only based on the semantic distinction between dimensional adjectives and other adjectives. A better analysis should make a further… read more