C.-T. James Huang
List of John Benjamins publications in which C.-T. James Huang is involved.
Journals
ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang
ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
Title
The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions
Edited by C.-T. James Huang
Special issue of Concentric 51:2 (2025) v, 172 pp.
2024 Topic drop and pro drop Language and Linguistics 25:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
One major difference between Chinese-type and German-type languages is that the former allows extensive types of argument drop, while the latter is quite limited beyond the existence of a null topic. This study argues (a) that it is necessary to distinguish among phenomena that have sometimes… read more
2022 Finiteness, opacity, and Chinese clausal architecture New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 17–76 | Chapter
Although languages differ considerably in the way they encode finiteness syntactically or morphonology, the ‘finiteness distinction’ exists as a universal grammatical phenomenon. This chapter will re-affirm the claim that the distinction exists in Chinese, with robust clustered properties that… read more
2021 Chapter 9. Quantifictional binding without surface c-command in Mandarin Chinese Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen and Luigi Rizzi (eds.), pp. 183–216 | Chapter
This article discusses quantificational binding without surface c-command in Mandarin Chinese. Jin (1998) pointed out that Chinese quantificational NPs (Q-NPs) headed by mei ‘every’ are capable of binding out of containers such as sentential subjects, relative clauses or adverbial clauses and… read more
2020 Revisiting donkey anaphora in Mandarin Chinese: A reply to Pan and Jiang (2015) International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:2, pp. 167–186 | Article
In their article published in this journal, Pan and Jiang (2015) challenge the claims and proposals made in Cheng and Huang (1996) concerning both the distributional patterns and interpretive strategies for donkey anaphora in Mandarin conditional. They claim that all three types of conditionals… read more
2014 A new passive form in Mandarin: Its syntax and implications International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This paper discusses the syntax, semantics and historical source of the new bèi XX construction in Mandarin from a cross-linguistic perspective. We argue that bèi XX is not a special construction that involves the passivization of intransitive verbs. What is passivized in it is not XX itself but a… read more
2013 Variations in non-canonical passives Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 95–114 | Article
This paper shows that non-canonical passives (like English get- and Chinese bei-passives) exhibit a chameleonic character that makes them amenable to a control and/or a raising analysis – depending on context and lexical choice. Such passives are formed by superimposing on the main predicate a… read more
1985 The autosegmental and metrical nature of tone terracing African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, Goyvaerts, Didier L. (ed.), pp. 209–238 | Article