Yang Xiao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yang Xiao is involved.
Article
2025 Why is middle voice the way it is? Revisiting its lexical-grammatical duality based on Sinitic linguistic evidence Studies in Language 49:3, pp. 587–644 | Article
The middle voice defies definitive characterization due to its dual nature, straddling both oppositional (grammatical) and non-oppositional (lexical) properties. Data from eight Sinitic languages reveal an emerging middle marker derived from passives, whose distribution is restricted by four… read more