Academia Sinica

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Academia Sinica*

Aldridge, Edith 2026 Against the agreement approach to Philippine-type voice

In: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] pp. 348–377

Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2025 A phonological and lexical profile of Sastod: A non-Amdo Tibetic language of Khrochu (Sichuan)

Keywords: Tibetic dialectology | phonological typology | sound change | subgrouping

Language and Linguistics 26:4 pp. 695–751 | article | open access

Liu, Dorinda Tsai-Hsiu, Ying-Hwa Chang & Paul Jen-Kuei Li 2025 Unraveling the impact of sociocultural factors on Indigenous heritage language proficiency in Taiwan: The crucial mediating role of heritage language input

Keywords: Indigenous heritage language | heritage language proficiency | Formosan languages | sinicization | input quantity | mediation

Language Problems and Language Planning 49:1 pp. 48–78 | article | open access

Chen, Sihwei 2024 未來不等於非現實語氣: 以幾個台灣南島語為例 [Future is not irrealis mood]

Keywords: 台灣南島語 | 未來 | 非現實 | 語氣 | 情態 | 時制 | Formosan | future | irrealis | mood | modality | tense

Language and Linguistics | Online First Publication, 41 pp. | article | open access

Wei, Pei-chuan 2024 論上古漢語副詞的全稱量化與相關問題 [On the universal quantification and related issues of adverbs in Old Chinese]

Keywords: 全稱量化 | 副詞 | 上古漢語 | 分配性解讀 | 集合性解讀 | universal quantification | adverb | Old Chinese | distributive reading | collective reading

Language and Linguistics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article | open access

Li, Paul Jen-kuei 2024 Special pronominal forms in Saaroa

Keywords: Formosan | Saaroa | pronoun | contrastive | change of function | 臺灣南島語 | 拉阿魯哇 | 人稱代詞 | 對比 | 功能轉換

Concentric 50:2 pp. 243–259 | article

Wei, Pei-chuan 2024 上古漢語不及物動詞用為使動之條件與限制 [The conditions and constraints of intransitive verbs used as causative verbs in Old Chinese]

Keywords: 不及物動詞 | 作格動詞 | 非作格動詞 | 非賓格動詞 | 上古漢語 | intransitive verb | ergative verb | unergative verb | unaccusative verb | Old Chinese

Language and Linguistics 26:3 pp. 533–552 | article | open access

Lin, Jo-wang 2024 名物化與「的」字結構: 談轉指與自指 [Nominalization and de-constructions]

Keywords: 名物化 | 轉指 | 自指 | 語境刪略 | 施用操作 | 施用論元 | nominalization | type shifting | deletion under identity | applicative analysis | applied arguments

Language and Linguistics 25:3 pp. 454–496 | article | open access

Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2023 Gser-Rdo: A new Tibetic language across the Rngaba‑Dkarmdzes border

Keywords: Tibetic dialectology | shared innovation | verb stem ablaut | subgrouping

Language and Linguistics 24:2 pp. 345–390 | article | open access

Tian, Qianzi & Jackson T.-S. Sun 2023 格西霍爾語的示證範疇 [Evidentiality in Dgeshes Horpa]

Keywords: 嘉戎語組 | 霍爾語群 | 動詞曲折形態 | 示證式 | Rgyalrongic languages | Horpa cluster | verbal inflectional category | evidentiality

Language and Linguistics 24:3 pp. 540–563 | article | open access

Liao, Wei-wen Roger & Yuyun Iris Wang 2022 Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 193–216

Shyu, Shu-ing & Lio̍k-san N̂g 2022 Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 479–508

Chang, Henry Y. 2022 On the emergence of a nonhuman bound pronoun in Tsou and its implications

Keywords: nonhuman | bound pronoun | invisible | singular | affix | clitic | ergative | Tsou

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:1 pp. 108–142 | article

Hsieh, Miao-Ling & Su-Ying Hsiao 2022 On the “one+verbal classifier” sequence as a delimitative aspect marker in Taiwanese Southern Min

Keywords: verbal classifier | durative phrase | the delimitative aspect | the ‘down-play’ meaning | Taiwanese Southern Min

Language and Linguistics 23:4 pp. 680–709 | article | open access

Wang, Sheng-Fu 2022 Markedness and voicing gaps in stop and fricative inventories

Keywords: markedness | gaps | sound inventories | phonological typology | voicing

Studies in Language 47:2 pp. 350–391 | article

Aldridge, Edith & Yuko Yanagida 2021 Two types of alignment change in nominalizations: Austronesian and Japanese

Keywords: active-inactive | cleft | nominative case | psych predicate | split-ergativity | syntactic reconstruction | unaccusative

Diachronica 38:3 pp. 314–357 | article

Huang, C.-T. James & Jo-Wang Lin 2021 Quantifictional binding without surface c-command in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: quantificational binding | c-command | Chinese | mei | subject/object asymmetry | LF

In: Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] pp. 183–216

Li, Paul Jen-kuei 2021 Adverbs in the Austronesian languages of Taiwan

Keywords: adverb | verb | adverbial verb | Austronesian

Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:1 p. 80 | article

Joby, Christopher 2021 Revisions to the Siraya lexicon based on the original Utrecht Manuscript: A case study in source data

Historiographia Linguistica 48:2/3 pp. 177–204 | article

Chen, Helen Kai-Yun & Chiu-yu Tseng 2021 From speech to language: An alternative corpus account of prosodic highlight in continuous speech

Keywords: prosodic highlight prompting | prosodic projection | information planning and allocation | continuous speech prosody | context prosody | 口語韻律亮點預示 | 口語韻律投射 | 信息規劃與配置 | 口語語流韻律 | 語境韻律

Concentric 47:2 pp. 184–224 | article

Tseng, Shu-Chuan 2021 Phonetic fusion in Chinese conversational speech

Keywords: conversational speech | phonetic variation | syllable merger

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:2 pp. 302–327 | article

Aldridge, Edith 2021 Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages

Keywords: Syntactic reconstruction | restructuring | grammaticalization | motion verb | alignment change | Austronesian

Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2 pp. 214–247 | article

Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2020 Synchronic and diachronic phonology of Lavïa: A Wa language of Yunnan and Myanmar

Keywords: Austroasiatic | Palaungic | Wa cluster | synchronic | diachronic phonology

Language and Linguistics 21:2 pp. 285–330 | article | open access

Teng, Stacy Fang-ching 2020 The three agent demoting prefixes (ki-, m-u-, kur-) in Katripul Puyuma: Their origins and possible development

Keywords: agent demotion | grammaticalization | passive | middle | anticausative | Puyuma | 主事者降級 | 語法化 | 被動 | 中間語態 | 反使動 | 卑南語

Concentric 46:1 pp. 21–65 | article

Brosig, Benjamin, Foong Ha Yap & Kathleen Ahrens 2020 Assertion, presumption and presupposition: An account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian

Keywords: assertion | presumption | presupposition | inference | evidentiality

Studies in Language 43:4 pp. 896–940 | article

Tian, Qianzi & Jackson T.-S. Sun 2019 格西霍爾語動詞的時與體 [On tense and aspect in the Gexi Horpa verb]

Keywords: 嘉戎語組 | 霍爾語群 | 中部霍爾語 | 動詞時−體系統 | 語言接觸與創新 | Rgyalrongic subgroup | Horpa language cluster | Central Horpa | verbal tense-aspect system | language contact and innovation

Language and Linguistics 20:3 pp. 451–468 | article | open access

Liao, Wei-wen Roger 2018 Bare numeral phrases in Mandarin and the Minimalist Mapping Hypothesis

Keywords: Chinese (Mandarin) | agreement | bare numeral NP | minimalism | syntax-semantics interface | mapping hypothesis

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:1 pp. 33–58 | article

Sun, Jackson T. -S. 2019 The synchronic and diachronic phonology of Va: A Wa-Lawa language of Yunnan

Keywords: Austroasiatic family | Palaungic branch | Wa language cluster | synchronic phonology | tonogenesis | contact-induced sound change

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:2 pp. 133–174 | article

Li, Paul Jen-kuei 2017 Some notes on animals and plants for Proto-Austronesian speakers

Keywords: Austronesian | cognates | animals | plants | domesticated | culture history

Language and Linguistics 18:2 pp. 254–268 | article | open access

Lin, You-Jing 2011 Perfective and imperfective from the same source: Directional ‘down’ in rGyalrong

Keywords: perfective | locational | imperfective | rGyalrong | grammaticalization | directional | aspect

Diachronica 28:1 pp. 54–81 | article

De Busser, Rik 2011 Towards an analysis of argument alignment in Takivatan Bunun

Studies in Language 35:3 pp. 523–555 | article

Chang, Henry Y. 2010 On the syntax of Formosan adverbial verb constructions

In: Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam & Lisa deMena Travis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] pp. 183–212

Gengshen, Hu 1990 An exploration into sci-tech interpretations: Abstract interpreting approach

Babel 36:2 pp. 85–96 | article

Liao, Wei-wen Roger Modals in imperatives: A view from Chinese

Keywords: Imperatives | Modals | Performativity | Mandarin Chinese | Southern Min

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 34 pp. | article | open access

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