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Temporal information in sentence-final particles (2025)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y. (2025). Temporal information in sentence-final particles. Asian languages and linguistics, 5(2), 251-280. https://doi.org/10.1075/alal.24007.jia

This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyze Shanghainese mi... Read More about Temporal information in sentence-final particles.

Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions (2024)
Thesis
Li, L. Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Lexical meaning in communication is often underdetermined and requires pragmatic enrichment for full interpretation. This thesis examines how four-character Chinese idioms and their parodic variations are interpreted within the framework of relevance... Read More about Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions.

The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Quasi-logical Use of yòu in Mandarin Chinese (2023)
Journal Article
Xue, L., & Jiang, Y. (2023). The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Quasi-logical Use of yòu in Mandarin Chinese. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 21, 16-29. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040381

This paper focuses on the quasi-logical use of yòu (又) ‘again’ in naturally occurring conversation. It is argued that such a usage of yòu not only keeps its generalised conjunctive meaning, whose left conjunct can be either explicitly present or omi... Read More about The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Quasi-logical Use of yòu in Mandarin Chinese.

On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese (2023)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y., & Wang, W. (2023). On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese. In M.-H. Chiang, & C. Y.-M. Yiu (Eds.), 早期漢語方言語法 Grammatical Studies on Early Chinese Dialects (1-30). Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has a sentence-final particle tse that has a tense-marking function. We review works by Nairong Qian (2006; 2009), Yuen Ren Chao (1926), and Li et al. (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missionar... Read More about On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese.

Translation as a Product in The Chinese Translation Market: Process and Quality Assurance (2023)
Thesis
Zhou, Y. Translation as a Product in The Chinese Translation Market: Process and Quality Assurance. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

As the demand for translation services surges, issues of translation processes and quality — which have been heatedly discussed in Translation Studies — have also been increasing concerns for professionals in the translation market. In China, these i... Read More about Translation as a Product in The Chinese Translation Market: Process and Quality Assurance.

Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese (2023)
Thesis
Xue, L. Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The meanings of Mandarin adverbs often display a chameleonic nature. Some of them, like propositional connectives, are used as Boolean operators and can be readily translated as such in a logical way. However, in the specific conversational context,... Read More about Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese.

Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu (2021)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y., & Wang, W. (2021). Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 95-120. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035585

This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missio... Read More about Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu.

Tense, Aspect and Modality in Modern Shanghainese as evidenced in the missionary linguistic and translation works on/in modern Shanghainese (2021)
Thesis
Wang, W. Tense, Aspect and Modality in Modern Shanghainese as evidenced in the missionary linguistic and translation works on/in modern Shanghainese. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation is a description of tense, aspect and modality in modern Shanghainese (1843 ~ 1950), based on investigations on a self-collected database of missionary linguistic and translation works in Shanghainese, with special reference to the... Read More about Tense, Aspect and Modality in Modern Shanghainese as evidenced in the missionary linguistic and translation works on/in modern Shanghainese.

Ways for expressing counterfactual conditionals in Mandarin Chinese (2019)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y. (2019). Ways for expressing counterfactual conditionals in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, 5(S3), Article 20190009. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0009

This paper discusses the ways in which Mandarin Chinese expresses counterfactual conditionals, and endeavours to motivate and theorize the use of such strategies. I aim to give an overall picture of Mandarin Chinese counterfactual conditionals, a top... Read More about Ways for expressing counterfactual conditionals in Mandarin Chinese.

Chinese and Counterfactual Reasoning (2019)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2019). Chinese and Counterfactual Reasoning. In C.-R. Huang, Z. Jing-Schmidt, & B. Meiserernst (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics. Routledge

Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament” (2018)
Journal Article
Yuan, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2018). Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”. Linguistics and literature studies, 6(5), 211-218. https://doi.org/10.13189/lls.2018.060503

This essay attempts to demonstrate, via surveying 10 classics in the history of rhetoric, that “ornament” collocated with rhetorical figures is widely viewed as inventional or argumentative, especially from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. Further,... Read More about Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”.

Chinese Rhetoric (2018)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2018). Chinese Rhetoric. In C.-R. Huang, Z. Jing-Schmidt, & B. Meiserernst (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics. Routledge

Scalar implicature (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2016). Scalar implicature. In R. Sybesma (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill

Presupposition triggers (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2016). Presupposition triggers. In R. Sybesma (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill

Counterfactual Subjunctive Assertions in Shanghai Dialect (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2016). Counterfactual Subjunctive Assertions in Shanghai Dialect. In C.-O. A. Chin, B.-C. Kwok, & B. K. Tsou (Eds.), Commemorative Essays for Professor Yuen-Ren Chao: Father of Modern Chinese Linguistics. Crane Publishing

Deixis and Anaphora (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2016). Deixis and Anaphora. In C.-R. Huang, & D. Shi (Eds.), A Reference Grammar of Chinese (484-517). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139028462.017

This chapter describes the main types and usages of deictics and anaphors. The phenomenon of deixis involves the use of a word or phrase whose interpretation is determined through considerations of the physical properties in the situation of utteranc... Read More about Deixis and Anaphora.

Chinese Pragmatics (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2016). Chinese Pragmatics. In C. Sin-Wai, J. W. Minett, & F. L. Wing Yee (Eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language. Routledge

The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese (2015)
Journal Article
Pan, H., & Jiang, Y. (2015). The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2(2), 159-192. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.2.2.01pan

Cheng and Huang (1996) argue that both unselective binding and E-type pronoun strategies are necessary for the interpretation of natural language sentences and claim that there exists a correspondence between two sentence types in Chinese and the two... Read More about The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese.

On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese (2014)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2014). On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese. In X. Su, & T. He (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop, CLSW 2014, Macao, China, June 9--12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer