The article presents an analysis of Chinese cleft sentences. Building on work conducted in
the past decade, this work sets out to present a new account of Chinese cleft sentences in …

This paper examines a wide range of nominalization strategies found in Asian languages,
and identifies robust grammaticalization pathways that trace the life of versatile …

This study reviews extended uses of nominalization constructions in a wide range of Asian
languages. It combines typological and diachronic perspectives, and traces how …

In recent years,“stance” has become increasingly an important locus for research within the
functional, pragmatic, cognitive, sociolinguistic and interactional paradigms. Stance may be …

This paper investigates two interrelated uses of the utterance-final form dehua in Mandarin
Chinese, its the conditional marker use and the discourse marker use. While the conditional …

This paper deals with exclamatives in Mandarin and has two main objectives. The first is the
application of the exclamativity tests proposed in the literature to identify “true” sentential …

While it is not uncommon for verb-final (sov) languages such as Japanese and Korean to
deploy a wide range of sentence final particles, given the frequent reanalysis of their (post) …

This paper addresses the emergence and development of the Chinese cleft construction,
with particular attention to the period from Early Archaic Chinese through Late Medieval …

Nominalized verb phrases have been identified as a possible source of passive and
impersonal constructions by Langacker & Munro (1975), Langacker (1976), and Givón …

This paper identifies a number of different pathways that give rise to sentence final particles
in Chinese. In particular, it focuses on a strategy referred to as‗ clausal integration ' …