Mengmin Xu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mengmin Xu plays a role.
Articles
2024 Modeling the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:2, pp. 258–285 | Article
The current study investigates the probabilistic conditioning of the Mandarin locative alternation. We adopt a corpus-based multivariate approach to analyze 2,836 observations of locative variants from a large Chinese corpus and annotated manually for various language-internal and… read more
2020 Pò (‘break’), qiē (‘cut’) and kāi (‘open’) in Chinese: A diachronic conceptual variational approach Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 213–243 | Article
This study explores the conceptual boundaries among break, cut and open from an under-investigated diachronic perspective and addresses the diachronic conceptual variations of Chinese pò (‘break’), qiē (‘cut’) and kāi (‘open’). The Center for Chinese Linguistics corpus is employed for the… read more