The interaction of discourse salience, visual information uptake, and syntactic encoding in Mandarin Chinese
In this project we contrast Chinese and German with respect to how linguistic "givenness" affects speaker's lexical and syntactic choices.
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- 'Serial-verb-constructions' in motion event encoding - morphological, syntactic, and contextual aspects
- Ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese
- Neural correlates of language processing in Chinese
- Predicting object states in Mandarin Chinese - insights from the bǎ-construction
- Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences