Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

• [To appear] Jun Chen, Daniel Hole. De outside the cleft: Not what you expected. Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft.
• [2023] Jun Chen, Sean Papay. Sentence-final particle de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) Student Session Best Papers Volume. [paper]
• [2022] Dawei Jin, Jun Chen. Towards the copular status of clefts-- Evidence from diachrony. Acta Linguistica Academica Vol. 69: Issue 3. 301-333. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. [paper]
• [2019] Dawei Jin, Jun Chen. Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions. In collection of M. Cennamo and C. Fabrizio (Eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Vol. 348. 479--500. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [link]
• [2019] Dawei Jin, Jun Chen. Scalarity, degree reading, and maximality in a Mandarin numeral construction. Language and Linguistics Vol. 20: Issue 2. 148-179. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [paper]
• [2018] Jun Chen, Dawei Jin. Meaning Change in Mandarin Chinese: A Numeral Phrase Construction from Adjectives to Superlatives to Definite Descriptions. Linguistics, Vol. 56: Issue 3, 599-651. Berlin: de Gruyter. [paper]

Book

• [2022] Dawei Jin, Jun Chen. Copula in focus constructions - A case study of syntactic change in historical Chinese. Shanghai: Zhongxi Shuju.

Proceedings

• [To appear] Jun Chen, Dawei Jin. Clefts can address wh-questions in referential anchoring contexts. In D. Panizza and F. Longo (Eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Vol. 29. Sicily.
• [2021] Jun Chen, Sean Papay. Sentence-final particle de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer. In D. Gutzmann and S. Repp (Eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Vol. 26. Cologne.
• [2021] Jun Chen, Dawei Jin. Towards the biclausal status of Chinese clefts: Evidence from diachrony. In J. Benz and Y. Chen (Eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) Vol. 28: Issue 1.
• [2021] Jun Chen, Sean Papay. Sentence-final de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer. In M. Y. Pedersen and A. Pavlova (Eds.) Proceedings of 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 2021 Student Session. 75-83.
• [2017] Jun Chen. Towards a copular approach to Chinese clefts---Evidence from diachronic syntax. Proceedings of 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 2017 Student Session.
• [2017] Jun Chen. Meaning Change from Superlatives to Definite Descriptions: A Semantic Perspective. In J. Kantarovich, T. Truong, and O. Xherija (Eds.) Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 52. 117-131.
• [2016] Jun Chen. Discourse Prominence Induces Semantic Change: Evidence from Chinese, In S. Cho (Eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 22: Issue 1, Article 9.