Yu Ma
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yu Ma is involved.
Articles
2024 Waning and waxing: The case of comparative marking in Tujia Language and Linguistics 25:4, pp. 644–672 | Article
This paper provides a preliminary description of the comparative construction in Tujia (northern dialect; NT), an endangered ergative Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken in China, in the context of the typologically diverse ways in which comparative meaning is expressed. In mono-clauses in NT,… read more
2023 The serial verb construction in Tujia Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:1, pp. 72–94 | Article
This paper presents a comprehensive description of the serial verb construction (henceforth SVC) in Tujia. It shows that serial verbs or verb phrases in Tujia are linked by the particle lie
55. lie
55 does not contribute any semantic content to the construction, but only functions as a… read more