Angela Cook
List of John Benjamins publications in which Angela Cook is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
Articles
2025 Who says men can never change? A corpus-based study of recent changes in the use of the Chinese plural suffix men Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles, pp. 582–610 | Article
Language change in Modern Standard Chinese has been an area of research interest for several decades. However, the field continues to be characterized by a focus on written Chinese, with a lack of systematic, fine-grained analyses of specific morphosyntactic features in spoken Mandarin and a… read more
2023 Reconsidering the shi…(de) construction in spoken Mandarin Chinese Language and Discourse 14:2, pp. 209–231 | Article
This paper revisits the use of the shi…de construction, based on the analysis of structures with predicative adjectives in a 500,000-character corpus of spoken Mandarin assembled from transcripts of a popular Chinese chat show. Overall, de was omitted more than 40% of the time with a predicative… read more
2011 Recent developments in the use of the plural marker men in Modern Standard Chinese in Taiwan Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1, pp. 80–98 | Article
Like any other living language, Mandarin Chinese is continually evolving and being modified in response to both internal and external pressures. These changes have been studied by numerous scholars, who have concentrated mainly on the written language. This paper chooses to explore whether the… read more