Liulin Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Liulin Zhang is involved.
Articles
2025 Measure schematicity through information content: A quantitative approach to grammaticalization Language and Linguistics 26:2, pp. 323–354 | Article
Apropos of the level of specificity, schematicity is the key indicator of grammaticalization in linguistics; compared to lexical items, the information provided by grammar patterns tends to be more abstract. With recourse to the notion of the quantifiable information content in information… read more
2024 The psycholinguistic realization of topic in Chinese: Cross-modal priming in the processing of Chinese OSV sentences Studies in Language 48:2, pp. 253–286 | Article
An OSV word order that deviates from the canonical SVO word order is typically viewed as derived through movement. This theory has been widely supported by psycholinguistic studies showing that the displaced constituents are mentally reactivated at the gap positions. However, some… read more