1st Edition
Resolving Reflexive Pronouns in Chinese An Experimental Approach
By Jun Lyu
Copyright 2027
166 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book explores the resolution of Mandarin Chinese reflexive pronouns— ziji (‘self’) and ta-ziji (‘he/she-self’)—in language processing, focusing on how the human mind integrates multiple linguistic cues during comprehension through both theoretical and experimental approaches.
It investigates the structural, semantic, and discourse-level properties of these reflexives, examining how... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Syntactic locality and linear recency in reflexive resolution 3. Discourse topicality and reflexive resolution 4. Logophoric prominence and reflexive resolution 5. The blocking effect and reflexive resolution 6. General discussion and conclusions
Biography
Dr Jun Lyu is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California. His main research interest lies in sentence processing, with a specific focus on pronoun resolution from cross-linguistic and language acquisition perspectives.
