Fuyin Thomas Li

Biographic Data

ID4607531
NAMEFuyin Thomas Li
GIVEN NAMESFuyin Thomas
FAMILY NAMELi
SIGNATURELI F T
AFFILIATIONSBeihang University
ORCID0000-0002-0094-9174
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Diachronic competition and functional differentiation in object-involving complex directional complement structures

    Open AccessYang Yuhang, Fuyin Thomas LiARTICLELanguage and Cognition2026

    This study investigates the diachronic evolution of four object-involving syntactic structures formed with the Mandarin complex directional complement (CDC) qǐlái ‘get up’ from the 12th to early 20th centuries, using data from the Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL) corpus. Frequency distributions and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) show that these structures did not undergo simple replacement but instead developed through gradual functio…

  • A diachronic study on the Mandarin complex directional complement guòlái ‘come over’ from the macro-event perspective

    Open AccessYang Yuhang, Fuyin Thomas LiARTICLECognitive Linguistics2025References: 1

    This study explores the diachronic development of the Mandarin complex directional complement guòlái ‘come over’ from the macro-event perspective. By analyzing data retrieved from the CCL corpus spanning 15 Chinese dynasties (1046 BCE-1920s), this study reveals that guòlái ‘come over’ can be initially traced back to the pattern guò N ( ér ) lái , where guò and lái functioned as distinct motion verbs. It then served as a motion verb, which subsequ…

  • Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin

    Open AccessYuanmeng Liu, Na Liu et al.ARTICLELingua2025

  • The semantic continuum from disposition to causative meaning

    Open AccessShan Zuo, Fuyin Thomas LiARTICLEFunctions of Language2025References: 37

    This paper contributes to the study of actualization through a case study on the development of the Chinese NP 1 + bǎ +NP 2 +VP construction. Actualization is the process following syntactic reanalysis in which new linguistic structures diffuse and extend their usage. Data are sourced from The Centre for Chinese Linguistics (CCL) Corpus. Multiple Correspondence Analysis is employed to explore the dynamic relationships among several subconstructio…

  • Event integration as a driving force of language change

    Open AccessNa Liu, Fuyin Thomas LiARTICLELanguage and Cognition2024

    Talmy’s (1991; 2000a; 2000b) influential work on motion events provides a strong two-way typology that can examine and account for the typology of a language, but this framework is basically synchronic. It may not be equally valid to explain language change. In this paper, we apply the event integration theory and its latest development, The Macro-event Hypothesis (Li, 2020, 2023), to account for the development of the causative verb 使-shǐ- make …

  • Modeling the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese

    Open AccessMengmin Xu, Fuyin Thomas Li et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…2024Cited by: 1References: 12

    The current study investigates the probabilistic conditioning of the Mandarin locative alternation. We adopt a corpus-based multivariate approach to analyze 2,836 observations of locative variants from a large Chinese corpus and annotated manually for various language-internal and language-external constraints. Multivariate modeling reveals that the Mandarin locative alternation is not only influenced by semantic predictors like affectedness and …

  • Attraction or differentiation

    Open AccessJing Du, Shan Zuo et al.ARTICLECognitive Linguistics2024Cited by: 1References: 9

    This study examines the interplay of attraction and differentiation through the diachronic encoding of causative alternations in Chinese. A corpus-based analysis is conducted to profile the use of two Change of State verbs (COS verbs), pò ‘break’ and kāi ‘open’, focusing on their argument structure constructions. The analysis yields two main insights: (i) In Chinese, there are four pairs of causative alternations. The first pair, CA1, involving t…

  • Event Segmentation and Causation

    Open AccessYu Deng, Fuyin Thomas LiARTICLEStudia Linguistica2023

    This study investigates how Mandarin speakers segment causal‐chain motion events in a verbalization task. The results demonstrate that Mandarin shows attentional bias for the causal source and goal in causal‐chain segmentation, which may be universal across languages. Furthermore, there is a correlation between directness of causation and the complexity of linguistic representations, with direct conceptualization leading to a preference for simpl…

  • Talmy, Leonard

    Open AccessJing Du, Fuyin Thomas LiARTICLECognitive Linguistics2018

  • Extending the Talmyan typology

    Open AccessFuyin Thomas LiARTICLECognitive Linguistics2018Cited by: 1References: 3

    The two-way typology proposed by Leonard Talmy has been extremely influential in the past few decades, and has led to a large number of publications. But while the majority of the literature is devoted to the identification of the verb-framed or satellite-framed status of individual languages, relatively little (if any) research focuses on the foundation of this theory. This article addresses the nature of the macro-event, a fundamental concept f…