Zhen Tian

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhen Tian is involved.

Title

Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life

Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian

The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.

Articles

Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian 2020 Introduction. Language, culture and identity: Signs of life Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Tian, Zhen 2019 Chapter 2. On the partial productivity of constructions: Creativity and semantic constraints on the Chinese zhe existential construction Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Chapter

The productive schema of a grammatical construction allows speakers to produce creative utterances. However, the fact that constructions tend to be partially but not fully productive has puzzled scholars for decades. This chapter analyzes the partial productivity of a highly productive… read more