Ying Fan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ying Fan is involved.
Articles
2024 On the discourse marker yěshì ‘also’ in Chinese constructions of blame Functions of Language 31:3, pp. 327–367 | Article
Blame is generally considered a social-cognitive act, in which the blamer expresses their negative evaluation and attitude to the ‘blamee’ and their actions. In the act of blame, the blamer takes a stance, presents it, and negotiates this stance with other participants within the discourse.… read more
2019 The obligatory fronting of the undergoer argument in the Mandarin Excessive serial verb construction Concentric 45:2, pp. 167–191 | Article
This paper discusses the unmarked obligatory fronting of the undergoer argument in the Excessive serial verb construction (hereafter SVC) in Mandarin Chinese. Acknowledging the existing description of the semantic-syntactic characteristics of the Excessive SVC (see for example, Li 1994, Shen &… read more
2017 Excessive serial verb construction: A quasi-resultative serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics 18:2, pp. 201–227 | Article
This paper identifies a distinct serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese: the Excessive serial verb construction. This construction exhibits formal similarity to the Resultative serial verb construction, since both of them involve adjacent unmarked verbs. Despite the similarity, the former… read more