Selected Publications (since 1991)
2022 (a). Tao, Hongyin.2022. An interactive perspective on topic constructions in Mandarin: Some new findings based on natural conversation. In Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin, I-Hsuan Chen, and Yu-Yin Hsu, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, pp. 635-668. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2022 (b). Hong Gang Jin, Jie Zhang, and Hongyin Tao. 2022. Learner Errors and L2 Processing in Chinese Verb Complements of Manner/State: A Corpus-Based Constructional Approach. In Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language, Edited by Fangyuan Yuan, Baozhang He, Wenze Hu. pp. 111-133. New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003161646-10.
2022 (c). Romagnoli, Chiara, and Hongyin Tao 2022. Discourse Markers in Mandarin Ll and Italian L2 Monologue Production and Their Pedagogical Implications. In Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language, Edited by Fangyuan Yuan, Baozhang He, Wenze Hu. New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003161646-13.
2022 (d). Tao, Hongyin (ed), with Chen, Weiheng, Chiu, Hsin-fu, Xiao, Yun, Liu, Yaqiong, Tian, Feiyang, Zhan, Weidong, and Zhang, Jie. 全球華語語法·美國卷 [Global Variation of Chinese Grammar: The U.S. Volume]. Beijing: The Commercial Press. (ISBN: 9787100207225).
2022 (e). Tao, Hongyin. 2022. Introduction: Multiple perspectives on the Chinese language structure and use in the US context. In Tao, H (ed.) 全球華語語法·美國卷 [Global Variation of Chinese Grammar: The U.S. Volume]. Beijing: The Commercial Press. 1-7.
2022 (f). Hongyin Tao and Gao, Hua. 2022. Fanzheng ‘anyway’ as a mitigator in adversity in Mandarin Conversation. Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [Language Research and Teaching], 216.4: 68-78.
2021 (a). Gao, Hua and Hongyin Tao. 2021. Fanzheng ‘anyway’ as a Discourse Pragmatic Particle in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, Locus, and Interactional Function. Journal of Pragmatics, 173 (2021), 148-166. (Special Issue on Forms across Positions edited by Mary Kim.)
2021 (b). Tao, Hongyin. Liz Carter, Helen Wan, and Yan Zhou. 2021. Inclusive Education in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: An Overview and Research Agenda. International Journal of Chinese Language Education, No 9, Special Issue on Inclusive Education in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, pp. 1-15.
2021 (c). Tao, Hongyin, guest editor. International Journal of Chinese Language Education, No 9, Special Issue on Inclusive Education in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language. Hong Kong: The Education University.
2021 (d). Tao, Hongyin, Scalar Pseudo-cleft Constructions in Mandarin Conversation: A Multimodal Approach, Lingua (December 2021). 1-24.
2021 (e). Tao, Hongyin, Some Salient Lexical Features of Spoken Academic Chinese and Their Pedagogical Implications. 臺大華語文學習與科技 (創刊號) (Chinese Language Learning and Technology), 1.1: 57-93.
2020 (a). Tao, Hongyin. 2020. Categorizing activities in Mandarin conversation and pedagogical implications. Yuyan Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu [Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] 2020.1 (201): 1-12.
2020 (b). Tao, Hongyin. 2020. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction. In The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An Emergent Unit in Interaction [Typological Studies in Language 128], Sandra A. Thompson & Tsuyoshi Ono (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 271-314.
2020 (c). Tao, Hongyin. 2020. Using authentic materials in a regular classroom: Some theoretical and practical considerations. In National Taiwan University Chinese MA in TCSL Program, ed., Chinese Language Teaching: Cross disciplinary and diverse perspectives. Taipei: Linking Publishing. 390-409.
2020 (d). Tao, Hongyin. 2020. Formulaicity without expressed multiword units. In Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono, eds., Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action [Pragmatics and Beyond New Series], 71-98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2020 (e). Tao, Hongyin, Hong Gang Jin, and Jie Zhang. 2020. A corpus-based investigation of manner/state complement constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Sinica Venetiana 6, 1-40. DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/001.
2019 (a). Tao, Hongyin. 2019. List gestures in Mandarin conversation and their implications for understanding multimodal interaction. In Xiaoting Li and Tsuyoshi Ono, eds., Multimodality in Chinese Interaction (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics), 65-98, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2019 (b). Patricia Mayes and Hongyin Tao. Referring expressions in categorizing activities: Rethinking the nature of linguistic units for the study of interaction. Studies in Language, 43(2): 329–363 (Special issue On the Notion of Unit in the Study of Human Languages).
2019 (c). Hongyin Tao and Junfei Hu. Structural, semantic, and pragmatic properties of nong (弄) constructions in Mandarin discourse: Evidence from corpora. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 6(1): 162-176.
2019 (d). Howard Hao-Jan Chen and Hongyin Tao. Academic Chinese: From Corpora to Language Teaching. In Xiaofei Lu and Berlin Chen, eds., Computational and corpus linguistic approaches to Chinese language teaching and learning. Berlin & Singapore: Springer. 57-79.
2019 (e). Corpora and Chinese Language Teaching: Focusing on the Lexicon and Characters. In Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language, Vol 17, 2018 (6): 1-2.
2019 (f). Guest editor, Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language, Vol 17, 2018 (6): Corpora and Chinese Language Teaching.（Accessible from the Taiwanese Scholarly Journal Database.)
2019 (g). Hongyin Tao & Howard Hao-Jan Chen, eds., Chinese for Specific/Professional Purposes: Theory, Pedagogical Applications, and Practices. Singapore: Springer Nature.
2019 (h). Tao, Hongyin & Howard Hao-Jan Chen. 2019. Chinese for Specific/Professional Purposes: An Introduction. In H. Tao & H. Chen, eds., Chinese for Specific/Professional Purposes: Theory, Pedagogical Applications, and Practices, vii-xiii. Singapore: Springer Nature.
2019 (i) Wang, Wei and Hongyin Tao. 2019 From matrix clause to turn expansion The emergence of wo juede 'I feel/think' in Mandarin conversational interaction. In Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström, and Leelo Keevallik, eds., Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action. [Studies in Language and Social Interaction 32]. 153-184. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2018 (a). Haiping Wu and Hongyin Tao. Expressing (inter)subjectivity with universal quantification: A pragmatic account of Plural NP + dou expressions in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 128 (2018): 1-21.
2018 (b) Zhang, Jie and Hongyin Tao. Corpus-based research in Chinese as a second language. In Chuanren Ke, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition, pp. 48-62. London and New York: Routledge.
2018 (c) Tao, Hongyin, M. Rafael Salaberry, Meng Yeh, Alfred Rue Burch. Using authentic spoken language across all levels of language teaching: Developing discourse and interactional competence. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 7(1):1–13.
2018 (d) Danjie Su and Hongyin Tao. Teaching the Mandarin utterance-final particle le through authentic materials. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 7(1):15-45.
2018 (e) Danjie Su & Hongyin Tao. Teaching the shi…de construction with authentic materials in elementary Chinese. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 7(1):111-140.
2018 (f) Guest editor, Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language, Vol 16, 2018 (6): Special Issue on Using Authentic Video Materials in Chinese L2 Teaching. (Accessible from the Taiwanese Scholarly Journal Database.)
2018 (g) Liu Yan and Hongyin Tao. ni bu zhidao ‘you don’t know’ in Mandarin Chinese and its implications for research on discourse markers. In Fang Mei and Cao Xiuling, eds., Interactional Linguistics and Chinese Language Studies (2), 271-286. Beijing: Social Science Documents Press.
2017 (a). Junfei Hu and Hongyin Tao. A Corpus-Based Study of Low Transitivity Features of the Verb Nong (弄) in Chinese. Foreign Language Teaching and Research [外语教学与研究]. 49.1, 50-58.
2017 (b). Jee Won Lee, Hongyin Tao, Ping Lu. Transcribing Mandarin Chinese Conversation: Linguistic and Prosodic Issues. Asia-Pacific Journal of Multimedia Services (Art, Humanities, and Sociology), Vol.7, No.5, May (2017), pp. 787-799. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/ajmahs.2017.05.70.
2017 (c). Meng Yeh and Hongyin Tao. Report: The 2nd International Confernce on Chinese Corpora. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 45.1: 248-252.
2017 (d). Tao, Hongyin. Spoken Chinese corpora: Construction and sample applications in research and language pedagogy. Bulletin of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan (中國語學). 2017.264, 25-43.
2017 (e). Heeju Lee, Danjie Su, and Hongyin Tao. A Crosslinguistic Study of Some Extended Uses of What-Based Interrogative Expressions in Chinese, English, and Korean. Chinese Language and Discourse. 8.2:137-173. .
2016 (a). Disputed memory and the social interactive functions of remembering/forgetting expressions in Mandarin conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 106 (2016): 184-202.
2016 (b). (With Daming Xu and Tianwei Xie) Korean translation of Dangdai Shehui Yuyanxue [Current Trends in Sociolinguistics], based on the third edition, Beijing Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe [The Chinese Social Sciences Publishing House, 2012]. Contemporary Linguistics Theories Series. (Korean translation by Chan Wook Park [朴贊旭]. Seoul: China House 2016.)
2016 (c) Edited volume. Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2016 (d) Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning: An Introduction. In H Tao, ed., Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. XV-XVII.
2016 (e). (With Haiping Wu) Patterns of Plural NP + dou (都) Expressions in Conversational Discourse and Their Pedagogical Implications. In H Tao, ed., Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.169-194.
2016 (f). (With Jin Liu) Chinese language in a global context. The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language, Edited by Chan Sin-Wai. Associate Editors: James William Minett, Florence Li Wing Yee. Oxford: Routledge. 119-136.
2016 (g). (With Haiping Wu) Plural NP + dou Expressions in Mandarin: An Interactional Linguistic Approach. FANG Mei, ed., Interactional Linguistics and Chinese Language Studies, Volume 1. Beijing: World Publishing. 117-131.
2016 (h). (With Zhan Weidong 詹卫东) 北美书面汉语语法特点探析--基于互联网中文文本的考察 [A Corpus Approach to North American Chinese based on Written Media Texts]. 全球华语 [Global Chinese]. 2.1:51–72.DOI: 10.1515/glochi-2016-0003. De Gruyter.
2015 (a). Profiling the Mandarin spoken vocabulary based on corpora. In William Wang & Chaofen Sun, eds., Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 336-347.
2015 (b). Teaching students to be discourse pragmatists: Practices in an L2 Chinese linguistics class. In CHUN- Chinesischunterricht [Chun: Chinese Language Teaching], 2015.30: 30-51. (Iudicium Verlag, Munich.)
2015 (c). (With Yu-Hui Lee, Danjie Su, Keiko Tsurumi, Wei Wang, and Ying Yang, eds.) Proceedings of the 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Volume I and Volume II. UCLA and Ohio State University online publication. (https://naccl.osu.edu/proceedings/naccl-27).
2015 (d). Author identification and dating of texts. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. General Editor Rint Sybesma. Vol. 1, 238-242. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
2014 (a). (With Danjie Su) Teaching Discourse Pragmatics in the Spoken Mode: The Case of Working with Spoken Chinese. In Lee, Sin-lun, Xie, Chunling, and Wu, Weiping, eds., Linguistics and Chinese L2 Teaching: Pragmatic Theory and Practice. Hong Kong: Commercial Press. 144-162.
2014 (b). (With Kan Chen) The rise of a high transitivity marker Dao in contemporary Chinese: Co-evolvement of language and society. Chinese Language and Discourse, 5.1: 25-52.
2014 (c). (With Lu Ping and Jee Won Lee) Discourse properties of some special sound elements and their transcription treatment. Yuyan Kexue (Linguistic Sciences), 13.2: 113-130.
2014 (d).Interview by Danjie Su: Developing spoken Chinese teaching texts based on authentic materials. Guoji Hanyu (Chinese Language in the World). Vol. 3: 105-112.
2013. Interdisciplinary perspectives on rhetoric studies: The cases of discourse analysis and phonetics. Contemporary Rhetoric, 176: 1-8.
2012 (a). (With Xian, Lixia and Haiping Wu) Using Authentic Materials for Language Teaching: Theory and Practice in TCSL. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 47.1: 135-157.
2012 (b). (Invited contribution) Corpus Linguistics in China and the US: An Overview and Prospects. Contemporary Studies in Modern Chinese, Japan. 2012.259: 48-68.
2011 (a). Working with Spoken Chinese. Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) Publications, Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA. (Companion website)
2011 (b). (Co-edited with Jin Liu) Chinese under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China. World Scientific Publishing Co.
2011 (c). (With Liu Yaqiong) Indexing evaluative stances with negative rhetorical interrogatives in Mandarin conversation. Chinese Language, 2011.2 (No. 341), pp.110-120.
2011 (d). ) Core Vocabulary in Spoken Mandarin and the Integration of Corpus-Based Findings into Language Pedagogy. In Yun Xiao, Liang Tao and Hooi Ling Soh, eds., Current Issues in Chinese Linguistics, 178-196. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2010 (a). (With Sandra A. Thompson) Conversation, grammar, and fixedness: Adjectives in Mandarin revisited. Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal. 1.1: 3-30.
2010 (b). (With Liu Yaqiong) From register differences to grammatical structural differences: Grammatical constructions in natural speech and the media. (Part One). Contemporary Rhetoric. 2010.1, 37-44.
2010 (c). (With Liu Yaqiong) From register differences to grammatical structural differences: Grammatical constructions in natural speech and the media. (Part Two). Contemporary Rhetoric. 2010.2, 22-27.
2009 (a). (With Zuoyan Song) A Unified Account of Causal Clause Sequences in Mandarin Chinese and Its Implications. Studies in Language, 33.1:69-102.
2009 (b). (With Zhuo Jing-Schmidt) The Mandarin Disposal Constructions: Usage and Development. Language and Linguistics. 10.1:29-58.
2009 (c). (With Tomoko Endo) From Volition and Enjoyment to Habituality: The Cases of Ai ‘Love to’ and Xihuan ‘Like to’ in Chinese. In Zhiqun Xing, ed., Functional Studies of Chinese, 155-183. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong Press.
2009 (d). (With Jin Liu) Negotiating Linguistic Identities under Globalization: Language Use in Contemporary China. Harvard Asia Pacific Review. Volume X.1, 7-10.
2009 (e). Zhanguo Lexical Devemopment and Applications. The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture, 2009.6, 217-241. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2009 (f). Core Vocabulary in Spoken Mandarin and the Integration of Corpus-Based Findings into Language Pedagogy. In Yun Xiao, ed., Proceedings of the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Volume 1. 13-27. Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University.
2009 (g). (With Yuan Tao) Cong Kaishi kan cilei fanchou yu lunyuan jiegou de dongtai tezheng [Kaishi 'begin' and the emergent nature of lexical categoriality and argument structure]. Yuyanxue Luncong [Essays on Linguistics], Peking University, Vol. 40, 334-354. 2009.
2008 (a). (With Tao MING) Developing a Chinese Heritage Language Corpus: Issues and a Preliminary Report. In Agnes Weiyun He and Yun Xiao, eds., Chinese as a Heritage Language: Fostering Rooted World Citizenry. 167-187. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai'i.
2008 (b). Issues in Language Acquisition and the Status of Chinese as an International Language. Journal of Yunan Normal University, Special Edition of Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language. 6.2: 6-8. Yunan, PRC.
2008 (c). The Role of Corpora in Chinese Language Teaching and Teacher Education. In Issues in Chinese Language Education and Teacher Development, eds., P. Duff & P. Lester, Centre for Research in Chinese Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. 90-102.
2008 (d). (With Bao Zhiming, Xu Jie, Xu Daming, and Yang Yiming) Linguistics Annual Review. In PRC Ministry of Education, Social Science Division, ed., Report on the development of humanities and social sciences in foreign universities, 2008. pp. 564-600. Beijing: Higher Education Press.
2008 (e). (With Zuoyan Song) A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Causal Clause Sequences in Discourse. Hanyu Xuebao [Chinese Linguistics], 24.4: 64-71.
2007 (a). A Corpus-Based Investigation of Absolutely and Related Phenomena in Spoken American English. Journal of English Linguistics, 35.1:1-25.
2007 (b). Caozuo Yuti zhong Dongci Lunyuan Jiegou de Shixian Ji Yuyong Yuanze [The Pragmatics of Argument Structure in Chinese Procedural Discourse], Zhongguo Yuwen [Chinese Language], 2007.1:3-13.
(Reprinted in Yuyan Wenzi Baokan Fuyin Ziliao [Linguistics Digest], People's University, PRC., 2007.3.)
2007 (c). Subjectification and the Development of Special-Verb Existential/Presentative Constructions. Language and Linguistics, 8.2:575-602. (Chinese translation by Song Zuoyan, in WU Fuxiang, ed., 汉语主观性与主观化研究 [Studies on Subjectivity and Subjectification]. Beijing: Commercial Press, 2011).
2007 (d). (With Richard Xiao) A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Study of Amplifiers in British English. Sociolinguistic Studies, Vol. 1.2:241-273.
2006 (a). Book review: Aspect In Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study, By Richard Xiao & Tony McEnery. Studies in Language. Vol. 30.3. pp. 627-32.
2006 (b). (With Donald Favareau, Charles Goodwin, Namhee Lee, Lisa Mikesell, and John H. Schumann) Language Evolution: What Evolved? Marges Linguistiques. Vol. 11, The origin of the Language Faculty and of Languages. May 2006.
2006 (c). Guest Editor, Special Issue on Chinese as a Heritage Language, The Heritage Language Journal Vol. 4.1, Fall 2006.
2006 (d). Introduction, Special Issue on Chinese as a Heritage Language, The Heritage Language Journal Vol. 4.1, Fall 2006.
2006 (e). (With Charles F. Meyer) Gapped Coordinations in English: Form, Usage, and Implications for Linguistic Theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2.2: 129-163.
2005 (a). (With Charles F. Meyer) Response to Newmeyer’s “Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage”, Language 81.1:226-228.
2005 (b). The Gap between natural speech and spoken Chinese teaching material: Toward a discourse approach to pedagogy. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. 40.2.:1-24.
2005 (c). Book review. Tell It Like It Is! (Text with DVD); Natural Chinese for Advanced Learners, by Jianqi Wang. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. 40.2.:117-125.
2004 (a). (With Chen Jing) A Usage-Based Study of Preposed Verbal Quantification Structures in Chinese. Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, 14.2: 125-137. Special Issue: Corpora, Language Use, and Grammar.
2004 (b). Ed., Special Issue: Corpora, Language Use, and Grammar. Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, Vol 14, No. 2.
2004 (c). Introduction: Corpora, Language Use, and Grammar. Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, 14.2:77-78.
2004 (d). Fundamentals in Spoken Discourse Analysis, Yuyan Kexue (Linguistic Sciences). 3.1: 50-67.
2004 (e). Language and gender, entry article for Edward Davis, ed., The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, 134-35. London: Routledge.
2004 (f). Terms of address, entry article for Edward Davis, ed., The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, 589-90. London: Routledge.
2004 (g). Dangdai Shehui Yuyanxue [Current Trends in Sociolinguistics]. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe [The Chinese Social Sciences Publishing House]. Contemporary Linguistics Theories Series . (With Daming Xu and Tianwei Xie) Revised, Second Edition.
2003 (a). Turn Initiators in Spoken English: A Corpus Based Approach to Interaction and Grammar. In Charles Meyer and Pepi Leistyna, eds., Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 187-208.
2003 (b). A Usage-Based Approach to Argument Structure: Remember and Forget in Spoken English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2003.8: 75-95.
2003 (c). Phonological, Grammatical, and Discourse Evidence for the Emergence of Zhidao (to know) Constructions in Mandarin Conversation, Zhongguo Yuwen (Chinese Language) 2003.4 (295): 291-302.
(Reprinted in Xu Jie and Zhong Qi, eds., Interface in Chinese: Phonetics, Morphology, and Syntax. Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 425-445. 2007.)
2003 (d). With Toshihide Nakayama and Tsuyoshi Ono, eds., Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics: Recent Studies in Empirical Approaches to Language, Vol. XII, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara. 2003.
2003 (e). Toward an Emergent View of Lexical Semantics, Language and Linguistics 4.4: 837-856. (Korean translation by 朴贊旭, 어휘의미론의 동태적 시각에 관한 시론, 中國語文論譯叢刊 [The Journal of Chinese Language, Literature and Translation], 第19輯, 2007.1, 387-409.)
2002 (a). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Relative Clause Constructions in Mandarin Narrative Discourse. Contemporary Research in Modern Chinese, Japan. 2002, Vol.
2002 (b). Corpus Linguistics and Emergent Semantics, In Feng-hsi Liu, ed., Proceedings of the 14th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Graduate Students in Linguistics Publications. L.A.: University of Southern California. 296-308.
2002 (c). Book Notice. Zou Shaohua: Yuyong pinlyu xiaoying yanjiu [Studies in frequency effects of language use], Pragmatics 12.4: 506-507.
2001 (a). Discovering the Usual with Corpora: The Case of Remember. In Rita Simpson and John Swales, eds., Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 Symposium. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 116-144.
2001 (b). Emergent Grammar and Verbs of Appearing. Contemporary Research in Modern Chinese, Japan, 2001.2:89-100.
(Reprinted in Shi Youwei, ed., Cong Yuyi Jieshi dao Leixingxue [From Semantic Explanations to Language Universals], 147-164. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the New Century, Beijing: Language and Culture University Press.)
2001 (c). With Michael McCarthy. Understanding Non-Restrictive Which-Clauses in Spoken English, Which Is Not an Easy Thing. Language Sciences 23.6, 651-677.
(Reprinted in Biber, Douglas and Randi Reppen, eds., 2012. Corpus Linguistics (Sage Benchmarks in Language and Linguistics), Volume II, 109-135. Los Angeles: Sage.)
2001 (d). Some Interactive Functions of Topic Constructions in Mandarin Conversation. Proceedings of the Joint Meetings of the 10th International Association for Chinese Linguistics and the 13th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Graduate Students in Linguistics Publications. L.A.: University of Southern California.317-331.
[Chinese translation by Yue Yao in Yuyanxue Luncong [Studies in Linguistics], Vol. 36, 363-376, Beijing: Commercial Press, 2007.]
2000 (a). Adverbs of Absolute Time and Assertiveness in Vernacular Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association , 2000.3: 53-73.
2000 (b). 'Eating' and Emergent Argument Structure. Yuyan Yanjiu [Language Research], 2000.3: 21-38.
2000 (c). With Zhang Bojiang. The Status of Indefinite Ba-Constructions in Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Its Implications. Zhongguo Yuwen [Chinese Language] 2000.5.
(Reprinted in Wu Fuxiang, ed., Hanyu yufahua yanjiu [Studies in Chinese Grammaticalization]. 323-350. Beijing; Commercial Press. 2005.)
2000 (d). With Giles, H., Noels, K.A., Ota, H., Ng., S.H., Gallois, C., Ryan, E.B., Williams, A., Somera, L., Lim, T.-S., & Sachdev, I.. Age Vitality across Eleven Nations. Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development. 21.4:308 – 323.
2000 (e). Book notice. Shen Jiaxuan: Buduicheng yu biaojilun.[Asymmetries and the Markedness Theory]. Pragmatics. 10.1:153-4.
1999 (a). The Grammar of Demonstratives in Mandarin Conversation Discourse: A Case Study. Journal of Chinese Linguistics , 27.1: 69-103.
1999 (b). With Pack-Ling Tan. Coordination in Mandarin Conversational Discourse: Evidence for Syntax-for-Interaction.In Chaofen Sun, ed., Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of ICCL and NACCL 10 . Graduate Students in Linguistics Publications. L.A.: University of Southern California. 449-466.
1999 (c). Book Notice. Hanyu Gongneng Yufa Yanjiu by Zhang Bojiang and Fang Mei. Pragmatics , 9.1:179-80.
1999 (d). Discourse Taxonomies and Their Grammatico-Theoretical Implications. Dangdai Yuyanxue [Contemporary Linguistics], 1.3:15-24.
(Reprinted in Yuyan Wenzi Baokan Fuyin Ziliao [Linguistics Digest], People's University, PRC. 10.2:22-31. 2000.)
1999 (e). Book Review. Hanyu Gongneng Yufa Yanjiu [A Functional Study of Chinese Grammar], by Zhang Bojiang and Fang Mei. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 28.2:259-66.
1999 (f). Body Movement and Participant Alignment in Mandarin Conversational Interactions. Papers from the 35th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. II: The Panels. 125-139. Chicago: The Chicago Linguistic Society.
1998 (a). A Preliminary Study of Patterns of Syntax-Prosody Mismatch in Mandarin Narrative Discourse. In S. F. Huang, ed., Selected Papers from the Second Conference on Languages in Taiwan. Taipei: Crane Publishing Company. 183-205.
1998 (b). With Tan Pack Ling. Syntactic and Prosodic Patterns in Taiwan Mandarin Narrative Discourse. Yuyan Yanjiu [Language Research], 1998.1:1-22.
(Reprinted in Yuyan Wenzi Baokan Fuyin Ziliao [Linguistics Digest], People's University, PRC. Vol. 10:107-128, 1998.)
1997. Dangdai Shehui Yuyanxue [Current Trends in Sociolinguistics]. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe [The Chinese Social Sciences Publishing House]. Contemporary Linguistics Theories Series . (With Daming Xu and Tianwei Xie)
( Table of Contents in GB Chinese system.)
(Reviewed by Wei Li in Pragmatics 1997, 7.3:428-429.)
1996 (a). Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, Discourse, and Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Lucy Elliott in Language 1998, 74.2:402-3.)
1996 (b). With Z. Bao, X. Liu, and M. Zhang. Building an Indexical Classical Chinese Philosophical Dictionary Based on Electronic Corpora. Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Computing '96. Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore. 165-171.
1996 (c). With Patricia M. Clancy, Sandra A. Thompson, and Ryoko Suzuki. The Conversational Use of Reactive Tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin. Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 26, No. 3. 355-387.
1995 (a). With Cher Leng Lee. A Social Account of Two Unusual Uses of Third Person Pronouns in Hong Lou Meng. In T. Cheng, Y. Li, and H. Zhang, eds., Proceedings of the Joint Meetings of 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics & 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Graduate Students in Linguistics Publications. Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California. 179-188.
1995 (b). Patterns of Prosody-Syntax Mismatch in a Taiwan Mandarin Narrative. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Taiwan, pp. 188-200. Graduate Institute of Linguistics. Taipei: National Taiwan University.
1994 (a). With Sandra A. Thompson. The Discourse and Grammar Interface: The Preferred Clause Structure in Mandarin Conversational Discourse. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Vol. XXIX, No. 3, 1-34.
(Chinese translation by Xu Jiujiu in Guowai Yuyanxue [Linguistics Abroad], No. 4, 26-36, 1995.)
1994 (b). With Shoichi Iwasaki, Tsuyoshi Ono, and Hyo Sang Lee, eds., Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Vol. V: East Asian Discourse and Grammar, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara.
(Reviewed by Brian Migliazza in Notes on Linguistics, 1997, Vol. 79:47-48.)
1992 NP Intonation Units and Referent Identification. L. Buszard-Welcher, L. Wee,and W. Weigel, eds., Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. pp. 237-247. Berkeley, CA.
1991 (a). NP Coordination in Medieval Chinese: A Discourse Approach. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale. Vol. XX, 1991:1.85-106.
(Also in Patricia M. Clancy and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Vol. III: Asian Discourse and Grammar, 153-170. Linguistics Department, UC Santa Barbara.)
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