Lilong Xu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lilong Xu is involved.

Article

Xu, Lilong and Boping Yuan 2024 What looks native-like may not necessarily be native-like: Evidence from L2 Chinese covert objects Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:6, pp. 856–885 | Article

A substantial body of research has investigated null arguments in L2 Chinese, showing that they can be native-like. However, recent linguistic research has demonstrated convincingly that some ‘missing’ arguments in Chinese should be viewed not as ‘null’ arguments but as a result of movement and… read more