Man Lu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Man Lu is involved.
2026 The expression of negation in southern Tujia: A diachronic perspective Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 49:1, pp. 61–82 | Article
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive description of the forms and distribution of negation expressions in southern Tujia (Tibeto-Burman), an endangered language spoken in southern China, from a diachronic perspective and comparing the negation forms with those in northern Tujia. Southern… read more
2024 The multiple functions of the reflexive pronoun in Tujia Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 47:1, pp. 140–159 | Article
This paper investigates the functions of the reflexive pronoun ko
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21/to
21 in Tujia, a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language. Apart from being used as a verb object, the reflexive pronoun in Tujia can be used as an intensifier, indicating “self, non-other”, but it can also be used to… read more
2024 Waning and waxing: The case of comparative marking in Tujia Language and Linguistics 25:4, pp. 644–672 | Article
This paper provides a preliminary description of the comparative construction in Tujia (northern dialect; NT), an endangered ergative Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken in China, in the context of the typologically diverse ways in which comparative meaning is expressed. In mono-clauses in NT,… read more
2023 The serial verb construction in Tujia Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:1, pp. 72–94 | Article
This paper presents a comprehensive description of the serial verb construction (henceforth SVC) in Tujia. It shows that serial verbs or verb phrases in Tujia are linked by the particle lie
55. lie
55 does not contribute any semantic content to the construction, but only functions as a… read more
2019 Nominalization and relativization in Tujia: A crosslinguistic perspective Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1, pp. 82–109 | Article
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of nominalization and relativization in Tujia from a typological perspective. We show that there are several nominalizers in Tujia, only two of which are multifunctional: ɕi and ɲie. ɕi can function as a nominalizer, a relativizer, a… read more