Dongbing Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dongbing Zhang is involved.
Articles
2026 Shunting in grammatical description: Are declarative and interrogative clear-cut categories in Khorchin Mongolian? Perspectives in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A celebration of the fiftieth international congress, Bartlett, Tom (ed.), pp. 84–116 | Article
The paper offers two alternative descriptions of Khorchin Mongolian interpersonal grammar around the issue of whether the language makes a clear-cut distinction between declarative and interrogative. The discussion is grounded mainly in the co-occurrence of clause-final particles and the… read more
2023 Understanding textual meaning-making in Chinese high school EFL learners’ writing: A systemic functional perspective Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students’ writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten… read more