Xiao Li

List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiao Li is involved.

Title

Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective

Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 24:1 (2023) v, 181 pp. | open access

Articles

Luo, Qiongpeng, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li 2023 Degrees and grammar: An East Asian perspective Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective, Luo, Qiongpeng, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li (eds.), pp. 5–35 | Article

In this article, we discuss some fundamental issues as well as several unresolved questions of degree-based theories in contemporary linguistics from the perspective of East Asian languages, with a view to pointing out some directions for future research. We first focus on several controversies… read more

Li, Xiao and Hongyong Liu 2022 Dimensional adjectives in Nuosu Yi Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:1, pp. 60–88 | Article

In this paper, we discuss two types of dimensional adjectives in Nuosu Yi (Tibeto-Burman), which we refer to as Positive adjectives (PAs) and Equative Adjectives (EAs). We show that PAs and EAs are subject to different distributions in gradation structures: EAs are only admissible in gradation… read more