Chuanlin Deng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chuanlin Deng is involved.
Article
2023 Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination? Evidence from Chinese shuō ‘say’ Functions of Language 30:2, pp. 137–158 | Article
When a ‘say’ clause is combined with a quoted-speech clause, one of two hypothetical pathways may be followed: (a) a complementation pathway on which the ‘say’ clause takes the quoted-speech clause as its complement clause and thus becomes its matrix clause; (b) a conjoining pathway which… read more