Jennifer Shuiying Yao

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer Shuiying Yao is involved.

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Yao, Jennifer Shuiying 2018 NP interpretation and disposal variations among the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shaoxing dialects Language and Linguistics 19:2, pp. 306–332 | Article
Corresponding to the Ba construction (S Ba-OVC) in Mandarin, Cantonese prefers a strong SVCO word order, and the Shaoxing dialect adopts an SOVC variation. This paper makes a detailed cross-linguistic study on the structure and semantic interpretations of disposal NPs and highlights the role of… read more
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