Xinyi Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xinyi Li is involved.
Articles
2025 A typology of alternative questions in Chinese and other East Asian languages Language and Linguistics 26:1, pp. 22–77 | Article
This paper presents a typological study of the coding strategies of alternative questions (AQs) in Chinese and its linguistic neighbours in Asia. An AQ is a type of question in which the speaker asks the hearer to decide which of two or more alternatives holds. Previous studies have noted that… read more
2023 L3 acquisition of Portuguese clefts by L1-Mandarin L2-English speakers L3 Development After the Initial State, Brown-Bousfield, Megan M., Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes (eds.), pp. 172–204 | Chapter
This study explored the trajectory of L3 acquisition (L3A) of three structurally different clefts in European Portuguese (EP) by L1-Mandarin Chinese (MC) L2-English learners, within the framework of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere, 2008, 2009). This study also considers the… read more