Yunchuan Chen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yunchuan Chen is involved.

Articles

Chen, Yunchuan 2021 Anaphor reconstruction in Japanese relative clauses: An experimental study Language and Linguistics 22:2, pp. 243–271 | Article

This study conducted two experiments to examine the derivation of the head noun phrase in Japanese relative clauses, with a focus on whether the anaphors jibun ‘self’ and jibun-jishin ‘self-self’ within the head noun phrase can be co-referential with the relative clause subject. It aims to… read more

Chen, Yunchuan 2019 Two types of possessive passives in Japanese Concentric 45:2, pp. 192–210 | Article

Many East Asian languages have possessive passives, whose subjects are interpreted as the possessor of the direct object. This paper investigates Japanese Possessive Passives (JPPs) and proposes that there are two types of possessive passives in Japanese: one with a ‘by-phrase’ headed by ni (ni… read more