This paper, based on a cross-linguistic understanding of the concepts of “copula” and “cleft,”
demonstrates that the Standard Modern Chinese shì is an invariant non-inflectional verb …

The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity
throughout Chinese children's ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming …

Abstract In Beck (Nat Lang Seman 14: 1–56, 2006), focus intervention is used as an
argument for reducing Hamblin's (Found Lang 10: 41–53, 1973) semantics for questions to …

This study makes substantial contributions to both the theoretical and computational
treatment of information structure, with a specific focus on creating natural language …

This dissertation makes substantial contributions to both the theoretical and computational
treatment of information structure, with an eye toward creating natural language processing …

A challenging issue of cross-linguistic variation is that the same syntactic construction may
appear in different arrays of contexts depending on language. For instance, cleft …

In a number of wh-in-situ languages, only causal wh-adverbs corresponding to 'why'exhibit
island effects. The widely adopted explanation for this by Tsai (On economizing the theory of …

This paper discusses the division of labor between the syntactic and the prosodic marking of
Information Structures in spoken Mandarin Chinese. Following the idea that …

Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures
investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over …

Non-canonical objects in Mandarin Chinese denote instrument, time, manner, and so on,
instead of theme. The predicates that contain such objects show properties of unergative …