Jingying Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jingying Li is involved.
Article
2018 Functional similarity despite geographical distance: On the grammaticalization of German mal and Chinese yíxià New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 55–74 | Chapter
German mal is the reduced version of einmal, i.e. of a construction combining the numeral ‘one’ with a noun originally denoting a salient local unit and later salient temporal units (occasions, frequency). The final stage of the development was a process of desemanticization of the frequency… read more