This study explores the ways that L2 learners develop their knowledge in understanding the
pragmatic functions of a Chinese discourse marker (DM), zenme shuo ne ('how to say'), and …

In recent years, within the cognitive linguistics approach there has been a trend of scholarly
research committed to exploring the motivation for language change. The way in which …

In this paper, we trace from a constructionist perspective the diachronic development of the
Chinese scalar additive coordinators meaning roughly 'let alone'derived from a prohibitive …

In this article, I explore how the Chinese-language construction Ni yiwei+ X?(Do you think
X?) is used as a rhetorical question in interpersonal interactions, which has been …

The present study compares the discourse markers (DMs) of “saying” in Mandarin Chinese
ke yi shuo (lit.“can say”) and ying gai shuo (lit.“should say”) with their equivalents in English …

This thesis takes an interest in the emergence and development of discourse markers. It
develops within the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar and treats discourse …

In line with the research aim of the present study to bring to the fore the contribution of a
constructional account to dialogicity and discourse unit delimitation, this chapter addresses …