Jing Du
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jing Du is involved.
Articles
2023 Separation events in Mandarin, Russian and Korean: A crosslinguistic event-categorization study Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2, pp. 377–410 | Article
Crosslinguistic studies on motion events have revealed that S-languages demonstrate finer-grained lexical categories than V-languages in representing motion manners/gaits. But these studies were restricted to the semantic domain of motion events and confined to a limited number of S- or V-… read more
2022 The convergence and divergence of extension and intension on semantic change: Evidence from Chinese pò Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2, pp. 438–475 | Article
Despite the fact that semantic change studies have intensively argued that intensional readings develop from the literal reading as a whole, diachronic prototype semantics proposes that intensional readings arise from the extensional subsets of the literal reading. This study empirically… read more
2020 Pò (‘break’), qiē (‘cut’) and kāi (‘open’) in Chinese: A diachronic conceptual variational approach Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 213–243 | Article
This study explores the conceptual boundaries among break, cut and open from an under-investigated diachronic perspective and addresses the diachronic conceptual variations of Chinese pò (‘break’), qiē (‘cut’) and kāi (‘open’). The Center for Chinese Linguistics corpus is employed for the… read more