Yonghui Xie

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yonghui Xie is involved.

Article

Xie, Yonghui, Ruochen Niu and Haitao Liu 2025 Cognitive motivations behind absent agents in passive sentences across Chinese and English Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Passive sentences featuring absent agents are prevalent in both Chinese and English, yet the cognitive motivations behind these agents have not received sufficient attention. To fill the gap, the current study investigates the differences in comprehension difficulty metrics between passive… read more
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