Reading List for Autumn Term 2025
Reading List for Autumn Term 2025
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Beihang Reading Club for Cognitive Linguistics (BRCCL) is a non-profitable interest group freely attended for reading and discussing classic and latest theories in Cognitive Linguistics. BRCCL is supervised by Professor Thomas Fuyin Li (thomasli@cq5520.com) from Beihang University. Its members are doctoral students, visiting scholars and faculty members from universities in Beijing, including Beihang University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, etc. Currently, BRCCL members gather 15 times per semester. At each gathering, we have one key speaker to do a detailed presentation on latest articles or classic books, followed by a discussion.
BRCCL would be grateful for any recommendation or complementary copies of the latest titles in the broad area of Cognitive Linguistics. BRCCL will always try its best to promote the latest theories to the audience in China by any possible means including writing a paper in Chinese.
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The address to receive complementary copies is as follows:
Professor Li Fuyin
Room 702, Ruxin Building
School of Foreign Languages
Beihang University
No. 37, Xueyuan Rd, Haidian District, Beijing P.R. China
thomasli@cq5520.comthomaslfy@gmail.com
Mobile:（86）13811098129; (86)10-82339799(O)
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Time: 9:00-11:00 (Beijing), Wednesday
Tentative Venue: Online (Tencent Meeting) & Offline (Seminar Room)
I. TOPIC: The Measurement of grammaticalization, complexity and variation
327. Gao, Q., & Ye, J. (2025). Contextualizing the variation in causal clause ordering in Mandarin Chinese: A multifactorial analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2025-0024
Speaker: Sunluo Lin
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 15th October
328. Robert, N. (2024). Using constructions to measure developmental Language complexity. Cognitive Linguistics, 35(4), 353–364.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2023-0062
Speaker: Sunluo Lin
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 15th October
329. Zhang, L., & Tao, J. (2025). Measure schematicity through information content: A quantitative approach to grammaticalization. Language and Linguistics, 26(2). 353–364.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00189.zha
Speaker: Sunluo Lin
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 15th October
II. TOPIC: Alternation and grammatical variation in learner language
330. Wang, M., Jiang, G., & Cheng, Y. (2024). A corpus-based multifactorial study of help/help to alternation in learners’ language: From the perspective of probabilistic grammar. SAGE Open, 14(4), 21582440241293535.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241293535
Speaker: Xinzhi Xiong
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 29th October
331. Gan, Q. (2024). Different registers, different grammars in second language production? The dative alternation in spoken and written Chinese learner English. Lingua, 309, 103790.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103790
Speaker: Xinzhi Xiong
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 29th October
332. Li, Y. (2024). Cognitive and sociolectal constraints on the theme-recipient alternation: Evidence from Mandarin. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2023-0127
Speaker: Xinzhi Xiong
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 29th October
III. TOPIC: Temporal and Spatial meaning of qian in Mandarin
333. Yang, Y., Sinha, C., & Filipovic, L. (2023). Sequential time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’and hou ‘back’. Language Sciences, 95, 101511.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101511
Speaker: Zerong Gao
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 5th November
334. Chen, A. C. (2022). Words, constructions and corpora: Network representations of constructional semantics for Mandarin space particles. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 18(2), 209–235.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0012
Speaker: Zerong Gao
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 5th November
335. Ursini, F., Rao, Q., & Zhang, Y. (2021). The polysemy and hyponymy of Mandarin spatial prepositions and localisers: Building semantic maps from the ground up. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 724143.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.724143
Speaker: Zerong Gao
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 5th November
IV. TOPIC: Causation in Mandarin
336. Hu, Y., & Gong C. (2024). A refinement of the analysis of the resultative V-de construction in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1), 129–146.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0018
Speaker: Xinzhi Xiong
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 12th November
337. Joo, I., & Liu, M. (2021). Caused-Motion and Caused-Position: Syntactic patterns and semantic networks. Studies in Language, 45(2). 470–498.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18067.joo
Speaker: Xinzhi Xiong
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 12th November
338.Chenxi, N. I. U., Cienki, A., Ortega, G., & Coene, M. (2024). Learning to express causal events in Mandarin Chinese: A multimodal perspective. Journal of Child Language, 51(1), 191–216.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000447
Speaker: Xinzhi Xiong
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 12th November
V. TOPIC: Chained metonymic approach to body part
339. Tsakuwa, M. B., Wen, X., & Ibrahim, L. (2023). A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa. Cognitive Linguistics, 34(2), 165196.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0007
Speaker: Zerong Gao
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 26th November
340. Hilpert, M. (2005). Chained metonymies. In John Newman & Sally A. Rice (eds.), Experimental and empirical methods in cognitive functional research. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2023.101573
Speaker: Zerong Gao
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 26th November
341. Almajir, T. S. (2013). The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of image schemas. Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 47, 93-111.
DOI:10.32690/SALC52
Speaker: Zerong Gao
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 26th November
VI. TOPIC: Metaphorical motion event encoding
342. Lewandowski, W., & Şeyda, Ö. (2023). Running across the mind or across the park: Does speech about physical and metaphorical motion go hand in hand?. Cognitive Linguistics, 34(3-4), 411–444.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0077
Speaker: Aya Benia
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 10th December
343. Lewandowski, W., & Şeyda, Ö. (2024). Translating motion events across physical and metaphorical spaces in structurally similar versus structurally different languages. Metaphor and Symbol, 39(1), 10–39.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2023.2268685
Speaker: Aya Benia
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 10th December
344. Lewandowski, W., & Şeyda, Ö. (2025). Did he lead monologues or did he talk to himself? How typological distance between source and target language influences the preservation of metaphorical mappings in translation. Linguistics Vanguard.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0126
Speaker: Aya Benia
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 10th December
VII. TOPIC: Historical development of English constructions
345. Zehentner, E. (2025). The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: A historical perspective. Language and Cognition, 17(e50). 1–34.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.10007
Speaker: Yuhang Yang
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 24th December
346. Sommerer, L., & Zehentner, E. (2025). Go to church or die in prison: PPs with bare institutional nouns in the history of English. Folia Linguistica Historica.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2057
Speaker: Yuhang Yang
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 24th December
347. Zehentner, E. (2024). Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(s1), 19–28.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0054
Speaker: Yuhang Yang
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM, 24th December