This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics, offering an accessible
synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field. Despite the steady growth in interest in …

In this chapter, we shed new light on the reduplicative processes of Mandarin Chinese and
assess the structural and interpretive properties of the input/base and output of these word …

Mandarin tone 3 sandhi is a phonological alternation in which the initial tone 3 (ie, low tone)
syllable changes to a tone 2 (ie, rising tone) when followed by another tone 3. The present …

This paper analyzes verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese under a lexicalist framework.
By adopting the Lexicalist Hypothesis proposed by Chomsky (1970), a distinction has been …

This paper studies prenominal reduplicative classifier in Cantonese, which has been argued
to be a distributive quantifier on a par with English every/each and Mandarin mei 'every', and …

It has been observed that Chinese resultative compounds display varied aspectual
behaviors. Yong (1997) distinguishes between simple change resultatives, ie resultatives …

This paper describes the morphological and phonological properties of three types of
reduplication in Standard Chinese, including diminutive, intensifying and delimitative …

This paper discusses how pluractionality is expressed in Macuxi (Cariban), a South
American Indigenous language spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Cross …

This paper reviews the studies on semantic and syntactic constraints of VV reduplication in
Mandarin Chinese through three different stages, with the theoretical framework extending …

Zheng, Yanyang and Kyumin Kim. 2022. Two types of classifier reduplications in Mandarin.
Linguistic Research 39 (1): 185-211. Reduplication is a word formation process, which has …