Changsong Wang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Changsong Wang is involved.

Articles

Wang, Changsong 2024 Review of Pan (2019): Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:2, pp. 313–318 | Review

Wang, Changsong 2021 Asymmetries in two types of de -related verb-copying constructionsin Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:2, pp. 241–290 | Article

This article studies Chinese V-de sentences from the perspective of verb-copying constructions (VCC) and presents some more evidence in favor of the distinction between descriptive V-de constructions and resultative V-de constructions. VCC with descriptive V-de sentences (VCCD) and VCC with… read more

Wang, Changsong 2017 On some mysteries, asymmetries and derivation of potential de construction in Chinese Language and Linguistics 18:4, pp. 647–698 | Article

In this paper, some mysteries and asymmetries of the Chinese potential de construction are investigated. It is shown that a morphosytnactic approach is conducive to accounting for these puzzles. First we explore the possibility of taking de and its negative counterpart -bude as functional heads… read more