Chao-Ting Tim Chou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chao-Ting Tim Chou is involved.
2026 Vietnamese mình: Attitudes, empathy and the blocking effect Language and Linguistics 27:1, pp. 1–52 | Article
This paper has four goals. (1) We argue that the non-local antecedent of the long-distance reflexive mình is either an attitude holder bearing a de se belief, or an empathy locus in the event/state that the utterance speaker identifies with (Kuno & Kaburaki 1977; Kuno 1987; Huang & Liu 2001;… read more
2025 On verbal similative plurality of shenme de in Mandarin Chinese The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions, Huang, C.-T. James (ed.), pp. 274–302 | Article
In comparison to the extensive body of research on canonical expressions of homogeneous plurality, such as Mandarin bare nouns and the English plural morpheme -s, the study of similative plurality in natural language has received relatively little attention in the current literature (with… read more
2025 Climbing towards the NLU of the universal reading of shei ‘who’ The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions, Huang, C.-T. James (ed.), pp. 303–348 | Article
The wh-expressions shei ‘who’ and shenme ‘what’ in Mandarin Chinese not only convey an interrogative meaning but also exhibit existential and universal readings in specific contexts (Huang 1982, Cheng 1991, 1995, Li 1992, Tsai 1994, Lin 1996, 1998). Focusing on the universal interpretation of… read more
2020 Acquisition of null objects in Mandarin Chinese by heritage speakers: Syntax-pragmatics interface knowledge without inflectional morphology International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:2, pp. 223–269 | Article
The acquisition of the grammatical knowledge related to inflectional morphology and syntax-pragmatics interface have both been shown to be challenging for heritage speakers (e.g., Montrul et al. 2008; Polinsky 2006, 2008; Sorace et al. 2009; Montrul 2009; Benmamoun et al. 2013a; Laleko &… read more