Yicheng Wu
Zhejiang University
37 Papers
94 Citations
Yicheng Wu is an academic researcher from Zhejiang University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Theoretical linguistics. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 31 publications. Previous affiliations of Yicheng Wu include University of Hong Kong & Jiangsu Normal University.
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Papers
Which way to move: The evolution of motion expressions in Chinese
Wenlei Shi,Yicheng Wu +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated the typological status of Chinese from an evolutionary perspective, with regard to the issue of how the information of motion events is encoded (Talmy 2000; Slobin 2004), and concluded that there is little justification for classifying Chinese as an equipollently framed language as in Slobin and Chen and Guo (2009).
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Multidisciplinary Approaches in Evolutionary Linguistics.
Tao Gong,Lan Shuai,Yicheng Wu +2 more
TL;DR: Evaluated how this multidisciplinary perspective yields important insights into a comprehensive understanding of language, its evolution, and human cognition is evaluated.
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Influence of Concessive and Causal Conjunctions on Pragmatic Processing: Online Measures from Eye Movements and Self-Paced Reading
TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of causal and concessive relations on discourse coherence in Chinese by means of eye movement and self-paced reading techniques, and found that the processing of a concessive relation can override that of a pragmatic incongruence.
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Rethinking foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective.
TL;DR: This paper proposes that the biological predispositions for language are largely domain-general, not necessarily language-specific or human-unique, and the socio-cultural environment of language serves as another important foundation of language, which helps shape language components, induce and drive language shift.
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How different are expletive and referential pronouns? A parsing perspective
Yicheng Wu,Stephen Matthews +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposes a unitary analysis of expletive and referential uses of the pronoun within the framework of Dynamic Syntax, which finds that the content of different types of pronouns, though underspecified by their form, is enriched from context.
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