Yan Cong

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yan Cong is involved.

Article

Cong, Yan 2021 Judge-dependence in quality nouns: A semantic analysis of the Mandarin Chinese “you NP” structure Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:2, pp. 167–216 | Article

By combining the idea of property concepts and the kernel-based theory of subjectivity, this paper proposes an analysis of the otherwise mysterious behavior of the Mandarin “you” predicates, where subjectivity/evidentiality and possessive/attributive readings come and go in an intricate way. The… read more