Bin Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bin Li is involved.
Articles
2020 Swearwords reinterpreted: New variants and uses by young Chinese netizens on social media platforms Pragmatics 30:3, pp. 381–404 | Article
Swearwords are common on the Internet nowadays. In addition to traditional forms and functions, new features and uses have been created as disguises and hedges, or even as deviants from insults. Focusing on the ‘new swearwords’ prevalent in Chinese social media, we identified the most commonly… read more
2019 A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin based on surface pitch contours and underlying pitch targets International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:2, pp. 183–220 | Article
Two statistical modelling methods are first used to quantify the third tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin in which the first falling-rising T3 becomes a rising T2 in the T3 + T3 disyllabic context. Growth curve analysis suggests non-neutralization of the surface F0 contours of the sandhi tone and… read more
2017 Chinese aspect marker -le and its acquisition by American English speakers International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 4:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
This study investigates the functions of the perfective marker -le and its acquisition by native speakers of American English from the perspective of the Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen and Shirai, 1994). We set out to test the predicted order regarding four verb categories in terms of their… read more