Yi Yan

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

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Yan, Yi and Anna Siewierska 2011 Referential impersonal constructions in Mandarin Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 547–580 | Article
This paper provides an overview of referential impersonal constructions in Mandarin Chinese. It is shown that while like many European languages Mandarin utilizes generalized nouns, special person forms, regular personal pronouns and a zero pronoun in the subject position to encode impersonality,… read more
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