Wenlei Shi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wenlei Shi is involved.
Articles
2018 The typological change of motion expressions in Chinese revisited: Motion events in Old Chinese and its Modern Chinese translation Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 847–885 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus-based study aimed at reexamining the typological status and diachronic change of motion expressions in Chinese, drawing on parallel texts consisting of autonomous motion expressions in Old Chinese (OC) and its Modern Chinese (MoC) translation. The results show that… read more
2014 Diachronic extension of Linguistic Inventory Mightiness: Evolution of directional resultative-verb-compounds in Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1:2, pp. 293–324 | Article
It is widely believed that the order of morphosyntactic elements in Modern Chinese is to a large extent constrained by the Principle of Temporal Sequence (PTS) proposed by Tai (1985, 2002, 2007). However, there are indeed some constructions in this language apparently deviating from PTS, e.g. 蹲到… read more