Fanxi Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fanxi Li plays a role.
Article
2021 On the conditional marker “zhě”(者): The interaction of nominalization, topicality, and conditionality International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:2, pp. 204–240 | Article
This paper aims to explain the development of “zhě” serving as a conditional marker mainly in Late Archaic Chinese and to show that the conditional marker “zhě” derives from the nominalizer “zhě”. The grammaticalization of “zhě” is at the level of pragmatic inference, which shows an interaction… read more