Chi-Ming Louis Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chi-Ming Louis Liu is involved.
Articles
2025 Restrictions on the rhetorical use of shenme-shihou sentences in Mandarin Chinese The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions, Huang, C.-T. James (ed.), pp. 203–223 | Article
Unlike earlier studies addressing rhetorical questions in which wh-arguments appear, this work investigates the restrictions imposed on the rhetorical use of Mandarin sentences containing the wh-adjunct, shenme-shihou ‘what-time.’ Sometimes, sentences that contain this wh-phrase can be used as… read more
2025 Pseudo matrix sluicing constructions in Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics 26:1, pp. 78–122 | Article
Speakers of Mandarin Chinese have a variety of ways to respond to others, one of which is the employment of a single wh-phrase to form a follow-up question. However, using a short wh-phrase to ask a question is not without any restrictions. Sometimes, the antecedent sentence needs to contain an… read more
2022 Refutatory na -sentences in Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:2, pp. 266–303 | Article
Refutatory na-sentences possess several syntactic properties that are absent in their interrogative counterparts. First, they carry the assertive rather than interrogative force; second, they are mainly used to refute a claim made by another interlocutor. Given the fact that such a distinction… read more