Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng is involved.
2025 On the syntax of restrictive relative clauses in Siwkolan Amis Concentric 51:1, pp. 70–120 | Article
This paper aims to investigate an array of morphosyntactic properties that constrain the formation of externally-headed relative clauses (EHRCs) in Siwkolan Amis, an Austronesian language in Taiwan. Additionally, it seeks to address two key issues related to the syntax of relative clauses:… read more
2025 The syntactic categories of adverbials and the structural integration of complement clauses in Siwkolan Amis Language and Linguistics 26:4, pp. 632–672 | Article
This work attempts to examine the morphosyntactic properties of adverbial expressions that are realized as verbs in Siwkolan Amis, and to investigate how they are structurally represented to form adverbial verb constructions (AVCs). I shall first provide evidence to show that these adverbial… read more
2023 A restructuring analysis of the non‑inferential evidential verb han in Siwkolan Amis Concentric 49:2, pp. 175–223 | Article
This work aims to investigate the morphosyntactic properties of han in Siwkolan Amis and to defend a lexical split of han, one being a lexical category with argument structure and the other a functional category merging to Voice0. I argue that the functional han cannot be analyzed as a quotative… read more
2022 The syntax of nominal modification and complex noun phrases in Siwkolan Amis Concentric 48:1, pp. 70–113 | Article
This work investigates the syntax of nominal modification involving the linker a in Siwkolan Amis, one of the dialects of Amis, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. Based on the two observed types of NP-ellipsis patterns and the formal licensing condition, I argue that Amis displays two… read more
2022 A cartographic view on mood prominence and force in Mandarin: A case of the speaker-oriented adverb zuìhǎo International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:1, pp. 1–48 | Article
This work investigates the division of labor between mood and illocutionary force in syntax by examining three modal construals encoded by the speaker-oriented adverb zuìhǎo ‘best’ (deontic, epistemic and evidential) in Mandarin, and accounts for a cluster of syntactic and pragmatic properties… read more
2018 On the syntax-discourse interface of nonsententials in Mandarin: A cartographic solution International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:2, pp. 252–305 | Article
This paper aims to develop the empirical and theoretical basis for the necessity of motivating a cartographic approach (Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999) to the clausal structure of nonsententials (NSs) in Mandarin. Especially noteworthy about NSs is that they are able to encode clause type information,… read more