Chen Wang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chen Wang is involved.

Articles

Wang, Chen 2025 Structures under nominalization: A parametric variation in Mandarin and English Language and Linguistics 26:2, pp. 355–385 | Article

This paper means to make a comparative study of the nominals denoting an event in Mandarin and English. I propose that although English has three types of eventive nominals — simple event nominal, Referential (R-) nominal, and Argument Structure (AS-) nominal — Mandarin has only simple event… read more

Wang, Chen 2014 Translating Shanghai: The Untranslatable in the translation of a city Translation Spaces 3, pp. 25–50 | Article

This essay problematizes the translation of one city as another: Shanghai for instance as ‘New York’ or ‘Paris.’ Such tropes have long been popular in literature and journalism. By viewing the issue through the lens of translation, the essay proposes to question the equivalence between cities that… read more