Nankai University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Nankai University*

Tribur, Zoe 2026 A polysemous analysis of ‘Factive’ evidence markers in Lhasa Tibetan

Keywords: Lhasa Tibetan | evidentiality | Factive | polysemy | epistemological stance | territory of information

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 49:1 pp. 107–158 | article

Yue, Yang 2025 Review of New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self edited by Lorenza Mondada & Ansi Peräkylä (2023)

Pragmatics and Society 17:3 pp. 406–410 | book review

Wang, Tianheng 2025 Tones of Beijing dialect since 1900 and their evolution: Evidence from early recordings

Keywords: tone evolution | Beijing dialect | early recordings | clockwise tone shift

Language and Linguistics 26:4 pp. 752–788 | article | open access

Higashi, Takahiro & Yunjia Wang 2025 普通話上聲變調形式的逆向協同發音作用 [Regressive tonal coarticulation of Tone3 sandhi to the preceding tones in Mandarin]

Keywords: 普通話 | 上聲 | 連讀變調 | 聲調協同發音 | Mandarin Chinese | Tone 3 | Tone sandhi | Tonal coarticulation

Language and Linguistics 27:3 pp. 400–423 | article | open access

Tshering, Sangsrgyas & Kai Sun 2025 實現—能力: 藏語動詞的一個重要範疇 [Realization-potential]

Keywords: 藏語 | 動詞 | 實現 | 能力 | Tibetan | verb | realization | potential

Language and Linguistics 26:3 pp. 496–532 | article | open access

Zhao, Jianjun & Naozang Bao 2024 Review of Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application by Shuxiang You (2020)

Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1 pp. 178–185 | book review

Gates, Jesse P. 2024 Anticausativization in Gyalrongic languages

Keywords: anticausativization | Gyalrongic languages | direction of derivation | agent-oriented meaning | change-of-state semantics

Studies in Language 49:2 pp. 243–288 | article

Sun, Huixia, Xueqi Xiang & Jin Wang 2024 A quantitative analysis of semantic characteristics and success of personal narratives on social media

Keywords: personal narratives | social media | word embeddings | culture success | semantic characteristics

Narrative Inquiry 36:1 pp. 24–64 | article

Yang, Daxue, Sangsrgyas Tshering & Jesse P. Gates 2024 A voicing rule for non-continuant obstruents in Thebo Tibetan

Keywords: Tibetan | Thebo | G-yi.ba | verbal morphology

Language and Linguistics 25:4 pp. 710–746 | article | open access

Xia, Quansheng & Ai Wang 2024 Are separable words words or phrases?: A study of Chinese verb-complement structures

Keywords: words | phrases | verb-complement structures | inter-component space | semantic judgment | processing mechanism

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1 pp. 30–55 | article

Liu, Chuntao 2023 Social status, contact history and the implosives in the Chinese dialects of Hainan

Keywords: Hainan garrison dialects | language contact | history | social factors

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 135–150 | article

Gates, Jesse P. 2023 Kinship terms in Stau

Keywords: Stau | Qiangic | kinship terms | vocative | referential

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:2 pp. 265–289 | article

Zeng, Xiaoyu 2023 On the formation of the Ei language

Keywords: Ei language | mixed language | Chinese | Kam-Tai languages | language contact | language attitude

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 118–134 | article

Chirkova, Katia & Skalbzang Tshering 2023 Verb stem alternations in Pingwu Baima

Keywords: verb stem alternation | verb morphology | Old Tibetan | Written Tibetan | Baima | Tibetic languages | Tibeto-Burman | language contact

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:2 pp. 165–200 | article

Chirkova, Katia & Zev Handel 2022 Diachronic developments in fricative + nasal sequences: A Tibeto-Burman case study

Keywords: fricative-nasal sequences | nasal devoicing | voiceless nasal | epenthetic stop | Tibeto-Burman | Qiangic

Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:3 pp. 476–503 | article

Gates, Jesse P., Sami Honkasalo & Yunfan Lai 2022 From transitive to intransitive and voiceless to voiced in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: New evidence from Stau, Geshiza, and Khroskyabs

Keywords: transitive and intransitive verb stems | sigmatic causative | anticausative | voicing assimilation | West Gyalrongic

Language and Linguistics 23:2 pp. 212–239 | article | open access

Guo, Jia, Chaolan Zhou & Xiaoxue Tang 2022 Review of Syntax Phonology Interface: Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects by H.-M. Zhang (2017)

Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:2 pp. 318–326 | book review

Zhao, Jianjun & Dazuo Wang 2022 Review of Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Phonology by Jisheng Zhang (2020)

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:2 pp. 345–351 | book review

Guo, Jia, Siyi Jia & Yanting Sun 2020 Review of The study of word stress and accent: Theories, methods and data edited by Rob Goedemans, Jeffrey Heinz & Harry van der Hulst (2018)

Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:2 pp. 367–378 | book review

Guo, Jia, Sihan Cui & Siyi Jia 2020 K. M. Ryan. (2019). Prosodic weight: Categories and continua

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1 pp. 158–165 | book review

Liu, Binmei 2020 Social class, language attitudes, and language use: A case study of Chinese university students

Keywords: language attitudes | language use | social class | 语言态度 | 语言使用 | 社会阶层

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1 p. 5 | article

Shi, Feng 2020 试论普通话声调的本调: ——兼谈五度值记调法的性质 [On the essential tones in Standard Chinese]

Keywords: 普通话声调 | 五度值记调法 | 本调 | 单字调 | 连读调 | tones of Putonghua | five-degree method | native tone | continuous tone | single tone

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1 pp. 140–157 | article

Wei, Mengyang 2020 Rob Goedemans, Jeffrey Heinz, and Harry van der Hulst (eds.). 2019. The Study of Word Stress and Accent: Theories, Methods and Data

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:2 pp. 345–356 | book review

Xie, Chenwei 2018 双音节动词 “把” 字句的焦点考察 [A study on focus in ba-construction with disyllabic verbs]

Keywords: 双音节动词 | “把” 字句 | 韵律分布 | 焦点 | ba-construction | disyllabic verb | prosodic distribution pattern | focus

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:2 pp. 306–330 | article

Liu, Binmei, Pengpeng Feng, Qingtao Feng, Jihong Li & Yuping Li 2018 Language attitudes by university students in mainland China: Results of a survey in three cities

Keywords: language attitudes | high variety | low variety | integrative orientation | instrumental orientation

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2 pp. 345–368 | article

祖晓梅 2019 《汉语教师应有的素质与基本功》，陆俭明、马真著

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 53:2 pp. 198–200 | book review

Liu, Binmei 2017 The use of discourse markers but and so by native English speakers and Chinese speakers of English

Keywords: discourse marker | interlanguage | communicative competence | Chinese | oral proficiency | but | so

Pragmatics 27:4 pp. 479–506 | article | open access

Yu, Hui 2016 Review of An investigation of various linguistic changes in Chinese and Naxi by Jung-yao Lu (2013)

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1 pp. 175–178 | book review

Li, Yi 2012 Institutional language as power in contemporary China: Interaction between officials and visitors in government service offices

In: Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian & Ruth Wodak (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 42] pp. 39–56

Li, Yi 2011 Institutional language as power in contemporary China: Interaction between officials and visitors in government service offices

Keywords: officer | institutions | politeness | visitor | power relations | social cohesion | interaction

Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 pp. 528–545 | article

Wen-Li, Ke 2002 How Can Semantics Work to Help Translation

Babel 47:2 pp. 158–174 | article

Wen-Li, Ke 1996 Culture and Idiomaticity in Translation

Babel 42:4 pp. 211–221 | article

Wen-Li, Ke 1995 Translation and culture: With special reference to the translation of Hong Lou Meng

Babel 41:1 pp. 24–35 | article

Wang, Tianheng & Xun Gong Reconstructing pharyngealized vowels for Qieyun Division II in Middle Chinese

Keywords: Middle Chinese | pharyngealization | retracted tongue root | rhotic | decoronalization

Diachronica | Online First Publication, 49 pp. | article

Gates, Jesse P. & Rtamgrin Lhamo 道孚语的五个主要特点 [Five distinguishing features of the Stau language]

Keywords: 道孚语 | 元音和谐 | 重叠 | 配列系统 | 指称转换 | Stau | vowel harmony | reduplication | alignment systems | switch-reference

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics | Online First Publication | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.