Feng-hsi Liu       劉鳳樨

Professor of Chinese Linguistics                   Office: LSB 112
Department of East Asian Studies                 (520) 621-5479
University of Arizona                                    e-mail: fliu@email.arizona.edu

Selected publications

Books

Peaches and Plums. 2014. Edited by C.-T. James Huang and Feng-hsi Liu. Taipei: Academia Sinica.

Scope and Specificity. 1997. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.
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Chinese Language Books

Side by Side Chinese and English Grammar. 2013. Feng-hsi Liu, Xiaozhou Wu, Rongrong Liao and C. Fredrick Farrell, Jr. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Practice Makes Perfect Basic Chinese. 2013. Xiaozhou Wu, Feng-hsi Liu and Rongrong Liao. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Articles

“Manner and result verbs in Mandarin Chinese.” 2022. Oxford Encyclopedia Research, edited by Mark Aronoff.

“SVO as the canonical word order in Modern Chinese.” 2022. The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, edited by Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-hwei Lin, Yu-yin Hsu, and I-Hsuan Chen. 407-422.

Nie, Xiaowen and Feng-hsi Liu. “Indefinite subjects in Mandarin Chinese.” 2021. Chinese Language and Discourse 12, 181-214.

Chen, Chen and Feng-hsi Liu. “汉语 “被” 字构式的二语习得研究.” 2021. 汉语教学学刊 13, 58-78.

Zhu, Jialei and Feng-hsi Liu. “离合词和词法句法的分工--再议'同源宾语说'” (Separable words and the division of labor between morphology and syntax – More on the “cognate object analysis.") 2020. 当代语言学 Contemporary Linguistics 22, 317-334.

 “汉语的使动转换” (Causative alternation in Mandarin Chinese.) 2018. 当代语言学 Contemporary Linguistics 20.3, 317-333.

“Second language acquisition of aspect in Mandarin Chinese.” 2017. Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research. Edited by Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun. New York: Routledge. 214-234.

“Syntactic sources of adjectives in Mandarin Chinese.” 2016. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 37:1, 38-55.

Jia, Hongyi and Feng-hsi Liu. “Acquisition of time and locative phrases– A case for input saliency.” 2016. Chinese as a Second Language 51:1, 1-28.

“Acquiring topic structures in Mandarin Chinese.” 2015. Chinese as a Second Language Research 4, 1-21.

“Quantification and the count-mass distinction in Mandarin Chinese.” 2014. Peaches and Plums. Edited by C.-T. James Huang and Feng-hsi Liu, Taipei: Academia Sinica. 153-180.

“L2 acquisition of the progressive marker zai in Mandarin Chinese.” 2012. Chinese as a Second Language Research 1: 153-192.

“Change of state and change of location verbs in Chinese.” 2012. Snippets 25: 7-8.

“The bei passive and its discourse motivations.” 2011. Chinese Language and Discourse 2.2: 198-231.

“Aspect and the post-verbal zai phrase in Mandarin Chinese.” 2009. Studies of Chinese Linguistics: Functional Approaches, edited by Janet Zhiqun Xing. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 103-129.

“Word order variation and ba sentences in Chinese.” 2007. Studies in Language 31.3: 649-682.

“Auxiliary selection in Chinese.” 2007. Split Auxiliary Systems: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, edited by Raul Aranovich. John Benjamins Publishers. 181-205.

“Dative constructions in Chinese.” 2006. Language and Linguistics 7.4: 863-904.

“Event measures in Chinese.” 2006. Snippets 12: 12-13.

“Scope dependency.” 2003. Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, edited by Javier Gutierrez-Rexach. Routledge. Vol. 2: 268-274.

“Definite NPs and telicity in Chinese.” 2003. Snippets 7: 13-14.

“The scalar particle hai in Chinese.” 2000. Cahiers de Linguistique-Asie Oriental 29.1: 41-84.

“Structure-preservation and transitivity: the case of Chinese ba sentences.” 1999. Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, Vol. 2. Case studies, edited by Michael Darnell, Edith Moravscik, Michael Noonan, Frederick Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatly. John Benjamins Publishers. 175-202. 

“A clitic analysis of locative particles in Chinese.” 1998. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 26: 48-70. 

“An aspectual analysis of ba.” 1997. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6.1.: 51-99.

“Pronouns as bound variables in Chinese.” 1997. The Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases, edited by Liejiong Xu. Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie-Oriental 2, Reg. Recettes Cahiers de Linguistique, Paris.

“Branching quantification and scope independence.” 1996. Quantifiers, Logic and Language, edited by Jaap van der Does and Jan van Eijck. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford. 155-168.