Jing Jin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jing Jin is involved.
Articles
2024 Encoding complex speech acts via sentence final particles: New evidence from the Changsha dialect (Xiang Chinese) Concentric 50:2, pp. 201–242 | Article
This paper examines the use of the sentence final particle tai (呔) in the Changsha dialect (Xiang Chinese). It is demonstrated that tai encodes complex speech acts: on the one hand, it expresses the speaker’s high degree of certainty about the truth value of the associated proposition p; on the… read more
2020 A revisit to the [Num-Cl-Modifier- de -N]/ [Modifier- de -Num-Cl‑N] variation in Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics 21:2, pp. 213–253 | Article
This paper investigates the licensing condition of the [Num(eral)-Cl(assifier)-Mod(ifier)-de-N(oun)] / [Mod-de-Num-Cl‑N] variation in Mandarin Chinese. It is observed that this variation represents a complex interface phenomenon in the nominal domain, which is subject to the semantic condition… read more
2015 The partitive construction in Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:1, pp. 85–120 | Article
This paper investigates the semantic and syntactic properties of [N(oun)+de+Q(uantifier)] in Mandarin Chinese. Based on a comparison with the quantitive construction [Q+N], the paper advocates that [N+de+Q] is the Chinese partitive construction. Adopting a clausal approach to the syntactic… read more