Ying Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ying Zhang is involved.
2025 Mandarin posture verbs: Cardinality, patterns of usage, and constructional preferences Chinese Language and Discourse 16:1, pp. 28–54 | Article
Posture verbs have attracted considerable interest within Cognitive Linguistics. This study continues this line of research by investigating usage-based patterns associated with these verbs when used in their literal posture senses. The data for the study comes from the Lancaster Corpus of… read more
2025 The Yin -centered philosophy in the Daodejing: Based on the conceptual metaphors of dao Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This research examines the philosophical foundations of the Daodejing and its cultural model of dao. Under the framework of the multilevel view of conceptual metaphor and cultural cognition, this paper analyses the hierarchically structured conceptual metaphors of dao in the text. Four… read more
2017 A study of Chinese repetitive adverbs “ hai (還)” and “ zai (再)” from a cross-linguistic perspective Chinese Language and Discourse 8:2, pp. 212–243 | Article
Comparisons of Chinese adverbs hai and zai is a long-standing topic in Chinese linguistics. Previous studies tend to mix up different uses of hai and zai, often leading to unnecessary confusion. This study focuses on the repetition use of these two adverbs, and demonstrates that in two syntactic… read more
Mandarin posture verbs: Cardinality, patterns of usage, and constructional preferences Chinese Language and Discourse: Online-First Articles | Article
Posture verbs have attracted considerable interest within Cognitive Linguistics. This study continues this line of research by investigating usage-based patterns associated with these verbs when used in their literal posture senses. The data for the study comes from the Lancaster Corpus of… read more