Heeju Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Heeju Lee is involved.
Article
2017 A crosslinguistic study of some extended uses of what -based interrogative expressions in Chinese, English, and Korean Chinese Language and Discourse 8:2, pp. 137–173 | Article
Interrogative pronouns such as what in English, shenme in Mandarin Chinese, and mwe/mwusun in Korean all have developed extended uses beyond interrogation. Such uses may include filling a gap in conversation, softening a speaker’s epistemic stance, and indicating strong emotions such as… read more