Weihua Zhou

List of John Benjamins publications in which Weihua Zhou is involved.

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Long, Haiping and Weihua Zhou 2025 From affirmation to concession: Diachrony of Modern Chinese concessive connective kě shì (‘but’) and its implications for connective formation Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:1, pp. 1–38 | Article
The Modern Chinese concessive connective kě shì (e.g., kàn shàngqù bù zěnmeyàng, kě shì chī qǐlái què tǐng bùcuò [‘it looks not so good, but it tastes quite good’]) did not develop from a clause-initial emphatic kě shì structure that has a pragmatic counter expectation meaning (e.g., kě… read more
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