Angela Cook
List of John Benjamins publications for which Angela Cook plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0155-0640 | E-ISSN 1833-7139
Articles
2023 Reconsidering the shi…(de) construction in spoken Mandarin Chinese Language and Discourse 14:2, pp. 209–231 | Article
This paper revisits the use of the shi…de construction, based on the analysis of structures with predicative adjectives in a 500,000-character corpus of spoken Mandarin assembled from transcripts of a popular Chinese chat show. Overall, de was omitted more than 40% of the time with a predicative… read more
2011 Recent developments in the use of the plural marker men in Modern Standard Chinese in Taiwan Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1, pp. 80–98 | Article
Like any other living language, Mandarin Chinese is continually evolving and being modified in response to both internal and external pressures. These changes have been studied by numerous scholars, who have concentrated mainly on the written language. This paper chooses to explore whether the… read more