Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Director, Chinese Language Program
Ph.D., UCLA, 1990
Office: LSB 112
(520) 621-5479
e-mail: fliu (at) u.arizona.edu
China and Taiwan cultural pictures
Teaches Chinese linguistics and language.
Research interests are primarily in theoretical and descriptive studies of Chinese languages. She has worked on several aspects of Chinese syntax and semantics, including quantifier scope, aspectual structure and scalar particles.
Selected publications:
“Word order variation and ba sentences in Chinese”.
2007. Studies in Language 31.3: 649-682.
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“Auxiliary Selection in Chinese”. 2007. Split Auxiliary Systems:
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, Raul Aranovich (ed.), John Benjamins
Publishers, 181-205.
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to article
“Dative Constructions in Chinese”. 2006. Language and Linguistics
7.4:863-904.
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“Event Measures in Chinese”. 2006. Snippets 12.
“Scope Dependency”. 2003. Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.), Routledge. Vol. 2: 268-274.
“Definite NPs and Telicity in Chinese”. 2003. Snippets 7.
“The Scalar Particle hai in Chinese”. 2000. Cahiers
de Linguistique-Asie Oriental. Vol. 29, no. 1. 41-84.
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to abstract
“Transitivity and Structure Preservation”. 1999. Michael Darnell, Edith Moravscik, Michael Noonan, Frederick Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatly (eds.) Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, Vol. 2. Case studies. John Benjamins Publishers. 175-202.
“A Clitic Analysis of Locative Particles in Chinese”. 1998. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 26: 48-70
Scope and Specificity. 1997. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers
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“An Aspectual Analysis of ba”. 1997. Journal of
East Asian Linguistics 6.1: 51-99.
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“Pronouns as Bound Variables in Chinese”. 1997. Liejiong Xu (ed.) The Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases, Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie-Oriental 2, Reg. Recettes Cahiers de Linguistique, Paris.
“Branching Quantification and Scope Independence”. 1996. Jaap
van der Does and Jan van Eijck (eds.) Quantifiers, Logic and Language.
Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford. 155-168.
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