Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics This
monograph is the first comprehensive study of topicalization in Asian second-language …

The expression of motion events has been examined in standard dialects of typologically
distinct languages, but the effect of dialect-based variation remains relatively unexamined …

The complexity of the directional construction in Chinese involves the following factors:(a) it
can take a single directional item as the predicate;(b) two directional items can cooccur to …

This paper discusses the grammaticalization of motion verbs in Mandarin. A class of motion
verbs in Mandarin that regularly appears at either V1 or V2 position in the V1+ V2 …

Applications of cognitive linguistics Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited Page 2 Applications of
Cognitive Linguistics Editors Gitte Kristiansen Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Honorary …

Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events has hitherto been observed cross-
linguistically. While over time, Chinese has shown a shift from a dominantly verb-framed …

This study employs a variationist approach in investigating the expression of directional
motion events in Toronto Heritage Cantonese (THC) in comparison to the patterns in Hong …

粵語在香港作為一種有機體, 有自己蓬勃的生命力, 而且不斷地在變化. 語言並不如想像之中那樣
古板或死板. 1990 年代, 徘徊在柏克萊東亞圖書館的張洪年教授, 無意中看到書架上有一本關於 …

Este articulo investiga los eventos de movimiento en asturiano desde la perspectiva de la
tipología de Talmy (1991). Doce hablantes nativos de asturiano participaron en este estudio …

提要按照在位移事件中, 路徑由動詞還是衛星表達, 把語言分成動詞框架和衛星框架語言.
前者用動詞表達路徑, 後者用衛星成分表達. 本文通過定量統計, 說明現代粵語和現代官話傾向用 …