Zoe Wu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zoe Wu is involved.

Articles

Simpson, Andrew and Zoe Wu 2022 Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessment New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 301–330 | Chapter

There is increasing evidence that languages may use distinct forms to encode definiteness in instances of anaphoric and non-anaphoric definiteness, for example, distinct determiners, or bare classifier vs. bare noun patterns. This chapter considers a recent, prominent claim in Jenks (2018) that… read more

Wu, Zoe 2004 A minimalist approach to the re-grammaticalization of morphology: Chinese verbal ‑le as aspect and tense Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 261–297 | Article

This paper examines variation in the interpretation of the Chinese verbal suffix ‑le and attributes it to a process of ongoing change in which an original aspectual system is gradually developing into a new tense system. The paper argues that the incremental pattern of re-grammaticalization can… read more

Wu, Zoe 2004 Restructuring and the development of functional categories Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar, Fuß, Eric and Carola Trips (eds.), pp. 191–217 | Chapter