Yong Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yong Wang is involved.
2022 From syntax to morphology: Noun-incorporation in Chinese Studies in Language 46:4, pp. 872–900 | Article
Noun-incorporation is a process of word-formation in which a nominal constituent is added to a verbal root, with the resulting construction being both a verb and a single word. The incorporated element may be the object of the verbal element; it may also denote agent, instrument, location, etc.… read more
2016 Impersonal clauses in Chinese Functions of Language 23:3, pp. 361–383 | Article
This article deals with impersonal clauses in Chinese (ICiCs) (e.g. Táishàng chàngzhe xì, 台上唱着戏). These are called pseudo-existentials in the literature, as they resemble typical existentials both in form and in meaning. I argue that ICiCs are impersonal, ergatively oriented, and existential.… read more
2013 A systemic typology of existential and possessive constructions Functions of Language 20:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
In this article, we examine locational constructions (including existentials, locatives, and possessives) in a number of languages. Morpho-syntactically, locationals resemble or are related to one another in word order, in case marking, and in the choice of verbs. In semantics, the relatedness lies… read more
2005 Actantial analysis: Greimas's structural approach to the analysis of self-narratives Narrative Inquiry 15:1, pp. 51–74 | Article
This paper introduces a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by the French/Lithuanian structuralist, A. J. Greimas. The focus is on demonstrating the utility of Greimas's ideas for analyzing one aspect of personal narratives: identity-construction. Reconstructing the basic… read more