Ning Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ning Zhang is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230
2025 Light predicate raising in the Mandarin post-VP adverbial nominal constructions Language and Linguistics 26:1, pp. 155–189 | Article
In Mandarin, a nominal may follow a string that is composed of a monomorphemic verb and its monomorphemic object. The nominal exhibits the same constraints as a preverbal PP. Also, unlike a canonical or non-canonical object, such a nominal cannot be deleted. It is argued that such a nominal is… read more
2022 Two kinds of selection marking International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:1, pp. 49–77 | Article
Why does an argument clause contain a meaningless complementizer in languages such as English and German, but not in Mandarin; and why does an adverbial clause occur with a meaningless correlative adverb in the matrix clause in Mandarin, but not in languages such as English and German? Extending… read more
2022 Defective incorporating verbs in Mandarin Language and Linguistics 23:2, pp. 329–348 | Article
This paper identifies a type of noun incorporation in which the verb and a nominal are combined as early saturation of the verb, in contrast to early restriction, which is seen in the familiar type of noun incorporation. Two types of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese are… read more
2022 Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 293–300 | Chapter
In Mandarin Chinese, the degree word ji ‘extremely’ can occur either to the left of a gradable expression, like other degree words, or at the end of a sentence, followed by the particle le. Meanwhile, head dependencies have been recognized to be either syntactic or non-syntactic, and syntactic… read more
2007 Universal 20 and Taiwan Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 10:1, pp. 55–81 | Article
Word order flexibility in sign languages has led some scholars to conclude that sign languages do not have any hierarchical structure. This paper shows that the word order patterns within Taiwan Sign Language nominals precisely follow Greenberg’s (1963:87) Universal 20. The manifestation of the… read more
2003 The asymmetry between depictives and resultatives in Chinese Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 165–185 | Article