Lixin Jin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lixin Jin is involved.
Articles
2025 粵語位移事件編碼類型再探 [Revisiting the encoding typology of motion events in Cantonese] Language and Linguistics 26:3, pp. 467–495 | Article
功能範疇的形式編碼是語言類型學研究的主要課題，它探討人類語言對同一範疇在不同語言中的編碼形式，從中發現編碼的共性與個性。本文首先論證粵語動趨式與普通話的不同，屬於連動式而不是動補結構，然後描寫粵語有生自移事件、無生位移事件和致移事件的三種編碼形式：(1)單個動詞編碼、(2)連動式、(3)「動結式」動補結構。參照Slobin的理論框架，通過近代和現代語料確定粵語在位移事件編碼上屬於V-語言為主的類型，也有E-語言的特點，向S-語言的轉變不明顯，V-語言與E-語言的編碼特點都體現了粵語是路徑顯著語言。語料還提示，語體的變異對位移編碼形式有影響，不同趨向動詞語法化速度不同。 read more
2024 Exploring absolutive case in reversible sentence structures of Mandarin Chinese , Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1, pp. 34–71 | Article
This paper examines the absolutive case in Modern Mandarin Chinese sentences with reversible argument structures. In these sentences, the two arguments adjacent to the verb can be interchangeable in syntactic position. Although previous research has provided partial descriptions and analyses of… read more
2021 Perfective aspect and perfect aspect: The case of Russian and Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:2, pp. 177–203 | Article
The “perfective” (Chinese term: wánzhěngtǐ) and the “perfect”(Chinese term: wánchéngtǐ) seem to be two different terms that are distinguished by definition. But in the description of actual languages, the boundary between them is not clear. The use of these two terms in many literatures is very… read more