Hauhua Pan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hauhua Pan is involved.
Articles
2026 Mandarin donkey conditionals: In defense of the null hypothesis International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 13:1, pp. 38–68 | Article
This paper examines recent advancements in the study of donkey sentences in Mandarin. Cheng and Huang’s (1996) seminal work distinguishes two types of donkey conditionals — bare conditionals and ruguo-/dou-conditionals — based on an alleged complementary distribution between wh-phrases and other… read more
2021 漢語語篇中語義實體的篇章可及性 [The discoursal accessibility of semantic entities in Chinese discourse] Language and Linguistics 22:3, pp. 440–474 | Article
本文在向心理論的框架下,討論漢語語篇中語句所包含的語義實體(即後指中心集合成員)顯著度等級排序的依據。這一排序是預測某一語句中語義實體相對於其隨後語句的篇章可及性的依據。我們計算並分析了漢語含「把」、「給」、「放」、「被」四類句式的敘述性語篇片段中這四類語句與其之前和隨後語句間回指中心的過渡方式。通過具體的數據分析和比對,我們發現了以下模式和傾向:(1)話題位置的語義實體是維繫篇章連貫性的關鍵,所有觀察的語句均通過話題位置的語義實體實現與其之前和隨後語句間的回指中心延續;(2)除話題位置的語義實體外,後指中心集合成員的顯著度等級排序遵循題元角色序列等級,以題元序列為參考, read more

