I-Ta Chris Hsieh

List of John Benjamins publications in which I-Ta Chris Hsieh is involved.

Journal

Language and Linguistics

語言暨語言學

Edited by Rui-wen Wu

ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067

Articles

Hsieh, I-Ta Chris 2021 On reciprocal degree constructions: A view from Mandarin Language and Linguistics 22:2, pp. 272–301 | Article

A degree sentence such as John and Mary are equally tall conveys both reciprocity and equivalence and hence are termed “Reciprocal Equatives” (RE). Building on Schwarz’s (2007) pioneer study, I suggest an account for this degree construction that covers a wider range of data. To the extent that… read more

Hsieh, I-Ta Chris 2019 Q-adjectives in Mandarin and the interpretation of nominal phrases International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:1, pp. 46–75 | Article

In Mandarin, predicative quantity adjectives (henceforth, Q-adjectives; e.g., duō ‘many’ and shăo ‘few ’; henceforth, predicative Q-adjectives), but not ordinary adjectives (e.g., cōngmi̇́ng ‘smart’), may influence the interpretation of the nominals they are predicates of; while the Mandarin… read more