Wuxi Zheng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wuxi Zheng is involved.
2025 Pragmatic functions of lê ‘what’ in Longxi Qiang: Beyond questioning Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the pragmatic functions of Longxi Qiang interrogative pronoun lê (‘what’) in natural conversation. Based on approximately ten hours of transcribed data, we found that lê is used in question and non-question functions such as filler, reversed polarity question marker,… read more
2024 Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang Pragmatics 34:2, pp. 293–318 | Article
This paper focuses on the uses of the definite marker -tì in Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language. Although the selection of referring expressions made by speakers is based on referent accessibility or cognitive status, at the same time, referring expressions have pragmatic and interactive… read more
2024 Person marking in Longxi Qiang Studies in Language 48:1, pp. 228–251 | Article
In Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language, the verb agreement system is not marking a syntactic function or semantic role. Previous studies of the Qiang language have argued that person markings reflect the person and number of the agent. My analysis based on a large amount of natural data,… read more
2019 Negation in Longxi Qiang Language and Linguistics 20:4, pp. 660–694 | Article
Negation in Longxi Qiang shows distinctive features in comparison to other recorded Qiang varieties. The choice between the two negative prefixes /mí-/ and /mì-/ and the volition indicated by these two negative markers in Longxi Qiang are similar to those of negators pu31 and mei55 in… read more