Zhengguang Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhengguang Liu is involved.
Articles
2019 Chapter 3. A corpus-based study of subjectification and the disposal construction in modern Mandarin: The BA construction vs. the BA-GE construction Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang (eds.), pp. 95–120 | Chapter
The BA construction, also known as the ‘disposal’ construction, is a morphosyntactic phenomenon unique to the Chinese language. Based on the findings of a collexeme analysis of corpus data and in line with subjectification proposed by Langacker, we provide evidence that the BA-pattern and the… read more
2019 Nominalization and relativization in Tujia: A crosslinguistic perspective Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1, pp. 82–109 | Article
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of nominalization and relativization in Tujia from a typological perspective. We show that there are several nominalizers in Tujia, only two of which are multifunctional: ɕi and ɲie. ɕi can function as a nominalizer, a relativizer, a… read more