Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.
Xiaoshi Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xiaoshi Li plays a role.
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Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2022 Chapter 2. An investigation of the use of the multifunctional particle ‑ le by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Chapter
The most widely studied aspect marker in Chinese is ‑le. In addition to functioning as a perfective aspect marker to indicate action completion, it can also serve as a sentence final particle to indicate a currently relevant state. It is obligatory in some situations but optional in others. And,… read more
2021 The use of le 了 in Mandarin Chinese oral discourse: A sociolinguistic perspective Chinese Language and Discourse 12:2, pp. 135–157 | Article
le is the mostly widely studied aspect marker in Chinese. In addition to perfective aspect marker to indicate action completion, le can also serve as a sentence-final particle to indicate a currently relevant state. This study investigates how Chinese native speakers use le in oral discourse… read more
2018 Lexical frequency and syntactic variation: Subject pronoun use in Mandarin Chinese Asia-Pacific Language Variation 4:2, pp. 135–160 | Article
With the rise of exemplar theory, the role of lexical frequency in language variation has been the object of considerable study. Recently, Erker and Guy (2012) extended the analysis of frequency to morphosyntactic variation and examined the role of frequency in variation between null and overt… read more
2017 Stylistic variation in L1 and L2 Chinese: Native speakers, learners, teachers, and textbooks Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:1, pp. 55–76 | Article
This study examines stylistic variation patterns in L1 and L2 Chinese, focusing on two linguistic structures: morphosyntactic particle DE and subject pronoun. The data were from thirteen native speakers, four Chinese instructors, twenty-three L2 Chinese learners, and four Chinese textbooks.… read more