National Chengchi University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with National Chengchi University*

Title

Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser & Randy J. LaPolla

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp. |

Kuo, Yueh Hsin & Nadine Dietrich 2026 On the distinction between ambiguity and vagueness in grammatical change

Keywords: vagueness | ambiguity | grammaticalization | usage-based linguistics

Journal of Historical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 35 pp. | article | open access

Lai, Huei-ling 2025 Cultural metaphors of plant proverbs in Hakka

Keywords: plant proverbs | cultural metaphor | contextual factors | the Great Chain of Being theory | Confucian ethics | 植物諺語 | 文化隱喻 | 情境因素 | 存在巨鍊理論 | 儒家倫理

Concentric 51:1 pp. 146–175 | article

Yeldham, Michael & Rainbow Tsai-Hung Chen 2025 Investigating reactivity in L2 listener verbal reports

Keywords: Mandarin-speaking English learners | second language listeners | second language research methods | verbal report | verbal report reactivity

AILA Review 38:1 p. 66 | article

Chou, Chao-Ting Tim & Yi-Hsun Chen 2025 On verbal similative plurality of shenme de in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: wh-expression | homogeneous plurality | similative plurality | Mandarin Chinese | wh 詞 | 均質複數 | 像似性複數 | 漢語

Concentric 51:2 pp. 274–302 | article

Sheridan, Cheryl L. 2025 The complicated terrain of editorial peer review in Anglocentric global academic publishing: Editors’ roles and practices in the semi-periphery

Keywords: editorial peer review | editor roles | global academic publishing | indexical scales | mobility | national journals | semi-periphery | Taiwan | world system | writing for publication in English

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:1 pp. 113–145 | article

Chen, Yi-Hsun 2025 A unified semantic account of Mandarin ordinal phrases

Keywords: degree semantics | numerals | ordering relation | ordinals | superlatives

Language and Linguistics 26:2 pp. 199–223 | article | open access

Chang, Yu-Yun 2025 Assessing hierarchical categories of evidentiality in Chinese in terms of readers’ certainty levels

Keywords: evidentiality | evidential category | readers’ certainty levels | encoded knowledge | evidential hierarchy | 示證性 | 示證式類別 | 讀者的確定程度 | 知識編碼 | 示證式階層

Concentric 51:1 pp. 121–145 | article | open access

Holm, David 2024 Review of The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960 by Janet Y. Chen (2023)

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 34:2 pp. 259–263 | book review

Ionin, Tania & Chung-yu Chen 2024 There isn’t a problem with indefinites in existential constructions in L2-English

Keywords: existential constructions | indefinites | Gricean principles | Mandarin | English

In: Current Perspectives on Generative SLA – Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl & Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70] pp. 290–313

Chung, Siaw-Fong & Yu-Che Yen 2025  Xiaosi ‘die laughing’ as a discourse marker: A Corpus-based study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan

Keywords: die laughing | xiaosi laugh-die | social media | discourse marker | corpus

The Mental Lexicon 19:1 pp. 180–188 | article

Lai, Huei-ling & Hsiao-Ling Hsu 2024 DOG and CAT proverbs: Cognitive operations and cultural constraints

Keywords: proverbs | conceptual blending | metaphor | virtues | cultural constraints

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 pp. 544–572 | article

Huang, Po-Hsuan & One-Soon Her 2024 On a dichotomy of question types: The case of Paiwan

Keywords: Paiwan | polar question | disjunctive question | constituent question | 排灣語 | 是非問句 | 選擇問句 | 疑問詞問句

Concentric 50:1 pp. 20–56 | article

Kuo, Chiu-Wen 2024 The global success of Netflix with Korean contents: The collaboration between the Korean government and local OTTs

Keywords: OTT | streaming platform | Netflix | South Korean drama | content industry | OTT | 串流平台 | Netfl | 韓劇 | 內容產業

InContext 4:1 pp. 162–186 | article | open access

Lyu, Siqi, Jung-Yueh Tu & Chien-Jer Charles Lin 2024 Structural position affects topic transition: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: topicality | topic shift | concession | double-subject construction

Language and Linguistics 25:1 pp. 56–79 | article | open access

Her, One-Soon & Bing-Tsiong Li 2023 A single origin of numeral classifiers in Asia and the Pacific: A hypothesis

Keywords: numeral classifier | measure word | single origin | Sinitic | Tai-Kadai

In: Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc & Marcin Kilarski (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] pp. 113–160

Lai, Yao-Ying, David Braze & Maria Mercedes Piñango 2023 The time-course of contextual modulation for underspecified meaning: An eye-movement study

Keywords: semantic underspecification | context | aspectual verbs | complement coercion | semantic ambiguity | sentence processing | eye-tracking | structured individual

The Mental Lexicon 18:1 pp. 41–93 | article

Hsu, Jeng-yih Tim & Su-han Cheng 2024 Teaching lexical collocations to enhance speaking proficiency of college English majors in Taiwan

Keywords: lexical collocations | speaking proficiency | EFL | Taiwanese college learners

AILA Review 36:2 pp. 231–268 | article

Chen, Yi-Hsun 2023 The anatomy of Chinese Superlative Modifiers: The case of Q-adjectives

Keywords: Superlative Modifiers | scalarity | focus | alternative semantics | superlatives | degree semantics

Language and Linguistics 24:2 pp. 216–268 | article | open access

Allassonnière-Tang, Marc, Zhong-Liang Gao, Shen-An Chen & One-Soon Her 2023 Phylogenetic analyses for the origin of sortal classifiers in Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages

Keywords: sortal classifier | Single Origin Hypothesis | Altaic | Mongolic | Tungusic | Turkic | 分類詞 | 單一起源假設 | 阿爾泰語 | 蒙古語 | 通古斯語 | 突厥語

Concentric 49:2 pp. 295–315 | article | open access

Lan, Shi-chi Mike 2023 The colonized in conflict: Taiwanese military interpreters and the postwar British war crime trials

Keywords: Taiwan | the Second World War | colonialism | British Malaya | Chinese overseas

In: Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world, Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía & Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 159] pp. 171–192

Hsu, Hsiao-Ling, Huei-ling Lai & Jyi-Shane Liu 2022  democracy in Taiwanese presidential inaugural addresses: Metaphors, source domains, scenarios, and ideologies

Keywords: democracy | metaphor | source domain | scenario | ideology | political discourse | 民主 | 隱喻 | 來源域 | 情境 | 意識型態 | 政治篇章

Concentric 48:2 pp. 212–248 | article | open access

Chen, Yi-Hsun 2022 Measurement and optional classifiers in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: classifiers | comparatives | measurement | mass-count neutrality | degree semantics

Language and Linguistics 24:1 p. 74 | article | open access

Chung, Siaw-Fong 2022 A morphosyntactic and morphosemantic analysis of the Malay fear lexeme

Keywords: takut ‘fear’ | morphosyntactic and morphosemantic structures | semantic relations | corpus | takut (恐懼) | 構詞語法與構詞語意結構 | 語意關係 | 語料庫

Concentric 48:2 pp. 147–173 | article

Chung, Siaw-Fong 2022 Emotion terms in Malay: Patterns in [meN-], [meN‑ -i], [meN‑ -kan], and [‑kan]-only forms

Keywords: emotion terms | semantic roles | Malay | corpus | [meN-] [meN‑ -i] [meN‑ -kan] [‑kan]

Language and Linguistics 23:2 pp. 147–190 | article | open access

Huang, Chu-Ren & Siaw-Fong Chung 2021 Delimiting durative events with manner: A comparative study of two verbs of rushing in Mandarin

Keywords: verbal semantics | event structure | MARVS | generative lexicon | construction grammar

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 16–59 | article

Hsiao, Pei-Yi & One-Soon Her 2021 Taxonomy of questions in Taiwan Southern Min

Keywords: TSM | IS constituent questions | CS polar questions | question particles | kám questions | 臺灣閩南語 | 徵求訊息問句 | 請求確認問句 | 疑問助詞 | 「敢」問句

Concentric 47:2 pp. 253–299 | article

Chung, Siaw-Fong 2020 Direct (dis)agreement verbs: Agree/disagree in native speaker and learner data

Keywords: agree | disagree | corpus | discourse | learner | native

Journal of Second Language Studies 3:1 pp. 111–140 | article

Ho Chen-En, Chen Tze-Wei & Tsai Jie-Li 2020 How does training shape English-Chinese sight translation behaviour?: An eyetracking study

Keywords: sight translation | cognitive process | reading ahead | chunking/segmentation | pausing behaviour | interpreter training

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 3:1 pp. 1–24 | article

Her, One-Soon & Hui-Chin Tsai 2020 Left is right, right is not: On the constituency of the classifier phrase in Chinese

Keywords: numeral classifier | complex numerals | left-branching | right-branching

Language and Linguistics 21:1 pp. 1–32 | article | open access

Chen, Meng-Ying, Miao-Ling Hsieh & One-Soon Her 2020 台灣閩南語分類詞之檢驗 [Distinguishing classifiers in Taiwanese Southern Min]

Keywords: 分類詞 | 個體量詞 | 量詞 | 台灣閩南語 | 台灣華語 | classifiers | individual measure words | measure words | Taiwanese Southern Min | Mandarin Chinese

Language and Linguistics 21:3 pp. 375–407 | article | open access

Allassonnière-Tang, Marc & One-Soon Her 2020 Numeral base, numeral classifier, and noun: Word order harmonization

Keywords: numeral | numeral base | classifier | noun | word order | harmonization

Language and Linguistics 21:4 pp. 513–558 | article | open access

Chung, Siaw-Fong 2019  Lagi in Standard Malaysian Malay: Its meaning conceptualization

Keywords: Lagi | Standard Malaysian Malay | adverb | corpus | lagi | 馬來語 | 副詞 | 語料庫

Concentric 45:1 p. 82 | article

Lai, Huei-ling 2019 Collocation analysis of news discourse and its ideological implications

Keywords: collocation strength | Hakka ethnic groups | news discourse | ideological representation | discursive

Pragmatics 29:4 pp. 545–570 | article | open access

Lai, Huei-ling 2018 Metaphor in Hakka proverbs: Linguistic and cultural constraints

Keywords: Hakka proverbs | rhetorical relations | connotative tendency | conceptual metaphor | conceptual metonymy

Language and Linguistics 19:4 pp. 549–576 | article | open access

Chui, Kawai 2018 Spatial conceptualization of sequence time in language and gesture

Keywords: sequence time | spatialization | orientations | reading and writing practices

Gesture 17:1 pp. 176–195 | article

Her, One-Soon 2017 Structure of numerals and classifiers in Chinese: Historical and typological perspectives and cross-linguistic implications

Keywords: classifier | measure word | constituency | numerals | multiplication | head-parameter

Language and Linguistics 18:1 pp. 26–71 | article | open access

De Busser, Rik 2015 Chapter 1. The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure: An overview

In: Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors, De Busser, Rik & Randy J. LaPolla (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] pp. 1–28

Her, One-Soon, Ching-Perng Chen & Hui-Chin Tsai 2015 Justifying silent elements in syntax: The case of a silent numeral, a silent classifier, and two silent nouns in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: bare classifier phrase | silent noun | numeral | silent element

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:2 pp. 193–226 | article

Huang, Chiung-chih 2014 The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language

In: Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu & Lixian Jin (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 60] pp. 13–34

Chui, Kawai 2012 Cross-linguistic comparison of representations of motion in language and gesture

Keywords: motion | gesture | linguistic-gestural representation | information status | cross-linguistic representation | Mandarin Chinese discourse

Gesture 12:1 pp. 40–61 | article

Huang, Chiung-chih 2012 The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language

Keywords: self-reference | Mandarin Chinese | other-reference | child language

Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 pp. 13–34 | article

Chui, Kawai 2012 Do gestures compensate for the omission of motion expression in speech?

Keywords: gestural compensation | gesture | linguistic-imagistic representation | motion event | cross-linguistic representation

Chinese Language and Discourse 2:2 pp. 153–167 | article

Hsu, Mei-Ling 2008 10. Reporting an emerging epidemic in Taiwan: Journalists' experiences of SARS coverage

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] pp. 181–199

Chao, Chin-chi 2008 13. How WebQuests send technology to the background: Scaffolding EFL teacher professional development in CALL

In: Teacher Education in CALL, Hubbard, Philip & Mike Levy (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] pp. 221–234

Chui, Kawai 2003 Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal?

Studies in Language 27:2 pp. 221–244 | article

Hsu, Chi-Pin, Vladimir Kurdyumov & One-Soon Her On the putative classifier languages in Europe: A case study of Russian

Keywords: numeral classifier | sortal classifier | classifier language | Russian | 量詞 | 分類詞 | 分類詞語言 | 俄語

Concentric | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

Chung, Siaw-Fong A corpus-based analysis of Malay prefix ber-

Keywords: ber- | Malaysian Malay | middle voice marker | situation types | corpus | 馬來語前綴ber- | 馬來西亞馬來語 | 中態標記 | 情境類型 | 語料庫

Concentric | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.