Beijing Language and Culture University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Beijing Language and Culture University*

Title

Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Fuzhen Si & Luigi Rizzi

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] 2021. | edited volume

Samo, Giuseppe 2026 Adverbs and non-arguments in the Left Periphery: A computational cartographic study

Keywords: adverbs | arguments | locality | quantitative cartography | Universal Dependencies

In: Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface, Coniglio, Marco, Kalle Müller & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] pp. 176–197

Samo, Giuseppe 2025 Cartography, movement and reordering of arguments: A quantitative computational study

Keywords: verbal arguments | quantitative | cartography | movement | locality

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] pp. 511–531 | open access

Xie, Yonghui, Ruochen Niu & Haitao Liu 2025 Cognitive motivations behind absent agents in passive sentences across Chinese and English

Keywords: passive sentence | comprehension difficulty | absent agent | statistical model

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 24 pp. | article

Tan, Ying 2024 A preliminary exploration of feminist translation strategies: A case study of sexist depictions in Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Trilogy

Keywords: interventionist feminist translation | sexism | feminine physical charm | science fiction | Liu Cixin | The Three-Body Trilogy | traduction féministe interventionniste | sexisme | charme physique féminin | science-fiction | Liu Cixin | la trilogie des Trois corps

FORUM 23:1 pp. 64–84 | article

Xiaoyu, Zhou 2024 Acoustic experimental study on the tone sandhi of the Jino language

Keywords: Jino language | Baka village | tone sandhi | acoustic study

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 47:2 pp. 254–283 | article

Li, Guilan 2024 江西吉水方言強調即時性的「來」及相關問題 [Imminence emphasis marker lai 來 of Jishui dialect in Jiangxi and some relevant issues]

Keywords: 語用標記「來」 | 即行體 | 即時性 | 意願 | pragmatic marker lai來 | imminence | proximative aspect | desiderative

Language and Linguistics 25:3 pp. 426–453 | article | open access

He, Yuyin 2024 The semantics of Mandarin futurates

Keywords: simple futurates | modality | aspect | tense & tenselessness

Language and Linguistics 25:2 pp. 234–269 | article | open access

Zhuang, Huibin, Pusong Zhao & Shengli Feng 2024 Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese: With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese

Keywords: foot-shift | disyllabification | syllabic structure of Old Chinese | prosody

Language and Linguistics 26:1 pp. 123–154 | article | open access

Su, Qi, Chen Gu & Pengyuan Liu 2023 Association measures for collocation extraction: Automatic evaluation on a large-scale corpus

Keywords: collocation extraction | pooling | association measure | statistical metrics | evaluation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:1 pp. 59–86 | article

Zheng, Yue, Bingbing Bai, Ya’nan Li & Lixin Liu 2024 《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准》: “说”等级描述语的解读与应用

Keywords: 中文水平 | 等级标准 | 说 | 等级描述语 | Chinese proficiency | grading standards | speaking | grade descriptor

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 58:2 pp. 182–197 | article

Long, Haiping, Xianhui Wang & Lei Wang 2022 Formation of Modern Chinese speech-quotative nǐ shuō ‘you say’ and feedback-seeking nǐ shuō ‘you tell me’: Two grammaticalizational pathways

Keywords: nǐ shuō | quotative | feedback-seeking | complementation | conjoining

Language and Linguistics 23:4 pp. 743–777 | article | open access

Chen, Ao, Melis Çetinçelik, M. Paula Roncaglia-Denissen & Makiko Sadakata 2021 Native language, L2 experience, and pitch processing in music

Keywords: music advantage | tone language | L2 | L2 proficiency

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:2 pp. 218–237 | article

Si, Fuzhen 2021 Towards a cartography of light verbs

Keywords: split light verb hypothesis | chain argument structures | chain event structures | ‘zoom-in/zoom out’ | mental magnifier | light verb field | rule-to-rule correspondence principle

In: Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] pp. 217–242

Samo, Giuseppe & Massimiliano Canuti 2021 Uncovering the left periphery of Etruscan: Some theoretical insights

Keywords: left periphery | Etruscan | syntacticization | criterial approach | scope-discource semantics | complementizers

In: Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] pp. 111–126

Rizzi, Luigi & Fuzhen Si 2021 Introduction: On the comparative basis of cartographic studies

In: Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] pp. 1–12

Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi 2021 Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective

In: Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] p.  ff.

Zhang, Wenxian, Xianyin Li & Wei Zhang 2021 Overlapping as final-item completion in Mandarin conversation

Keywords: overlap | collaborative sequences | Mandarin conversation | Interactional Linguistics | 交叠 | 合作共建 | 汉语会话 | 互动语言学

Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 pp. 35–51 | article

Liu, Liquan, Ao Chen & René Kager 2020 Simultaneous bilinguals who do not speak a tone language show enhancement in pitch sensitivity but not in executive function

Keywords: lexical tone | musical pitch | bilingualism | enhanced sensitivity | executive function

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3 pp. 310–346 | article | open access

Zhang, Ke 2018  Language and social change in China: Undoing commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin by Qing Zhang

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2 pp. 369–371 | book review

Wuyun, Saina & Haihua Pan 2014 The inter-sentential function of Mandarin bei passives

Keywords: Centering Theory | center transition | bei passive | inter-sentential function | discourse coherence

Chinese Language and Discourse 5:2 pp. 252–280 | article

Feng, Shengli & Huang Mei 2014 Review of Research on Literary Grammar in Modern Written Chinese by Dejin Sun (2012)

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2 pp. 277–280 | book review

Wu, Fuxiang 漢語南方方言處所型進行體標記演化的類型學蘊含 [The typological significance of the evolution of the locative type of progressive marker in Southern Chinese dialects]

Keywords: 進行體標記 | 轉喻 | 定名學演變 | 漢語南方方言 | progressive marker | metonymy | onomasiological change | southern Chinese dialects

Language and Linguistics | Online First Publication | article | open access

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