Vicky Tzuyin Lai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vicky Tzuyin Lai is involved.

Article

Lai, Vicky Tzuyin and Zygmunt Frajzyngier 2009 Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 223–232 | Article

In Classical Chinese, there were four first person pronouns: wu2, wo3, yu2, yu3, and a zero-pronoun1 with the following functions: wu2 was the default marking the speaker; wo3 coded contrast between the speaker and others; yu3 was used when talking about the speaker in connection with heaven,… read more