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Chang Melody Ya-Yin. Postverbal particles in Naxi
Chen Liping . The scalarity of dou in focus structure
Chen Weirong. Relative clauses in Hui'an dialect
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Donazzan Marta. Presupposition on times and degrees: the semantics of Mandarin hái
Gao Qian. Word order in Mandarin: Reading and speaking
He Baozhang 何宝璋. 谈 "有（一）点 + 静态动词" 的语义及语用功能
Hsu Yu-Yin. The sentence-internal topic and focus in Chinese
Hu Jianhua and Pan Haihua. Mandarin intransitive verbs and their objects at the syntax-information structure interface
Hu Wenze 胡文泽. '把’字句语法意义在现代汉语‘把’字结构句中的不均衡表现
Huang Hui-Yu Catherine. Ambiguity in the affirmative/negative ‘V u/bo NP’ construction in Taiwanese Southern Min
Huang Yahui Anita. Prepositions in Chinese bare conditionals
Kuo Pei-Jung. Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement
Kuong Io-Kei Joaquim. Yes/no question particles revisited: the grammatical functions of mo4, me1, and maa3
Li Chao. On the headedness of Mandarin resultative verb compounds
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Li Kening. Contrastive Focus Structure in Mandarin Chinese
Lin Yi-An. A probe-goal approach to parametric variation in English and Mandarin Chinese nominal phrases
Qian Nairong 钱乃荣. 上海方言的时态
Ren Fei. Temporal meaning of -le in Chinese
Rouzer Jack. Adjectivals and adverbials: on the representation of quantities and qualities in Chinese and implications for language typology
Shen Yang 沈阳. 补语小句和处所义双宾结构的句法构造
Simpson Andrew and Ho Hao Tam. The comparative syntax of passive structures in Chinese and Vietnamese
Tieu Lyn Shan. Non-referential verb use in Chinese: A unified verb copying analysis
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Wang Xin. The semantics and pragmatics of liandou /ye, lian, dou, and ye
Zhang Lan. Locative inversion and aspect markers le and zhe in Mandarin Chinese
Zhang Qing. The negative auxiliary in Chinese imperatives
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Huang Yu-chi and Kaiser Elsi. Investigating filler-gap dependencies in Chinese topicalization
Ng Shukhan. An active gap strategy in the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Chinese
Wang Zhijun. Context coercion in sentence processing: evidence from Chinese
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Dong Xinran. Chinese requests in academic settings
He Yi. Humor in discourse: a linguistic study of the Chinese dialect film, Crazy Stone (疯狂的石头)
Kang Hana. A discourse analysis of code-switching in Falling Leaves and Luoyeguigen (落葉歸根)
Meng Nan. Making requests: a pragmatic study of Chinese mother-child dyads
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