Yi-Hsun Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yi-Hsun Chen is involved.
2025 On verbal similative plurality of shenme de in Mandarin Chinese The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions, Huang, C.-T. James (ed.), pp. 274–302 | Article
In comparison to the extensive body of research on canonical expressions of homogeneous plurality, such as Mandarin bare nouns and the English plural morpheme -s, the study of similative plurality in natural language has received relatively little attention in the current literature (with… read more
2025 A unified semantic account of Mandarin ordinal phrases Language and Linguistics 26:2, pp. 199–223 | Article
Mandarin ordinal phrases demonstrate an ambiguity between a definite reading and an indefinite quantity reading, first observed by Tsai (2011). However, contra Tsai (2011)’s lexical-ambiguity view, this paper presents a compositionally unified semantic analysis of the ambiguity of Mandarin… read more
2023 Measurement and optional classifiers in Mandarin Chinese Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective, Luo, Qiongpeng, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li (eds.), pp. 74–119 | Article
This paper presents a compositional analysis of the fact that Mandarin individuating classifiers are systematically optional in various degree constructions (see also Lin & Schaeffer 2018 for experimental evidence), by taking a mixed approach incorporating the insights from Chierchia (1998;… read more
2023 The anatomy of Chinese Superlative Modifiers: The case of Q-adjectives Language and Linguistics 24:2, pp. 216–268 | Article
This paper studies the morpho-semantics of a particular class of scalar focus adverbs called Superlative Modifiers (SMs). One key feature of these scalar focus adverbs is that they bear degree morphology, along with gradable adjectives involved. Most analyses of SMs in the market do not take… read more