Zhang, Liulin & Jiajun Tao. 2025. Measure schematicity through information content: A quantitative approach to grammaticalization. Language and Linguistics, 26(2), 323-354. [Download]

Zhang, Liulin. 2024. The ideograph-based linguistic Chineseness: Evidence from the disappearance of derivational morphology. Signs and Society, 12(3), 235-256. [Download]

Zhang, Liulin. 2024. What is a Chinese word? Lexical constructionalization in Chinese. Folia Linguistica, 58(3), 633-658. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2023. [Download]

Zhang, Liulin. 2024. On the Chinese resistance to lexical borrowing: A writing-driven self-purification system. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11:33. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02556-3. [Download]

Zhang, Liulin. 2024. The psycholinguistic realization of topic in Chinese: Cross-modal priming in the processing of Chinese OSV sentences. Studies in Language, 48(2), 253-286. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22041.zha [Download]

Zhang, Liulin. 2023. Has Chinese always been an analytic language? Effects of writing on language evolution. Language and Semiotic Studies, 9(4), 576-597. [Download]

Zhang, Liulin (2022). Three types of change-of-state events in human conceptualization: Evidence from the expansion of Chinese verbal compounds. Language and Semiotic Studies, 8(2), 19-47. [Download]

Zhang. Liulin (2021). 施受同辞现象的认知原型 Shishoutongci xianxiang de renzhi yuanxing [The cognitive prototype of transitivity alternations]. 语文建设通讯 Yuwen Jianshe Tongxun [Chinese Language Review] 124, 1-15. [Download]

Zhang. Liulin (2021).“字本位”可解决汉语的类型学难题 “Zi benwei” ke jiejue hanyu de leixingxue nanti [The character-based approach can solve the typological problem of the Chinese Language]. 中国社会科学报 Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Bao [Chinese Social Sciences Today], February 2. Available at https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1690548002045437481&wfr=spider&for=pc

Zhang, Liulin (2020). 先秦汉语中的反宾为主句——无常动词的滥觞 Xianqin Hanyu zhong de fanbinweizhuju: Wuchang dongci de lanshang [The ‘theme + verb’ construction in Pre-Qin Chinse: The origin of Chinese labile verbs]. In Wei Cao & Jianjun Wang (eds.), 语言文字研究论集 Yuyan wenzi yanjiu lunji [Studies on linguistics and philology]. Suzhou: Soochow University Press.

Zhang, Liulin & Luke Amoroso (2020). Internal and external mechanisms of Englishization: Changes in marked and unmarked Chinese passive constructions. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 81, 319-338, https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/clac.67945. [Download]

Zhang, Liulin (2019). A study into the prototypicality of Chinese labile verbs. Cognitive Semantics, 5(1), 1-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/23526416-00501001. [Download​]

Zhang, Liulin. (2018). Non-salient form in Chinese as a second language instruction: Input flood of Chinese notional passive construction. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 7(2), 249-276. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/caslar-2018-0010. [Download​]

Zhang, Liulin (2018). The Chinese Notional Passive Construction under the View of Cognitive Construction Grammar. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 8(2), 83-110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.8.2.83-110.

Zhang, Liulin (2017). The typology of labile verbs and Chinese. In Lan Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-29) Vol. 2 (pp. 423-442). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://naccl.osu.edu/proceedings/naccl-29.

Zhang, Liulin (2017). Base-generated or movement-derived: Antecedent priming in the processing of the Chinese OSV topic sentence. Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, 5(1), 1-24. Available at https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P4-1917279346/base-generated-or-movement-derived-antecedent-in.

Zhang, Liulin (2017). Ergative verbs and neutral verbs in Pre-Qin Chinese through the investigation of the ‘theme + verb’ construction’. Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies R&D, 2(1). Available at  http://media.wix.com/ugd/ab838c_7994d9307537410ab77baee4b6193962.pdf

Zhang, Liulin (2016). A character-based constructional approach to Chinese imperfective aspect markers 在zai and 着zhe. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 6(1), 59-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.6.1.59-79. (Click here to read)

Zhang, Liulin & Song Jiang (2016). A cognitive linguistics approach to Chinese classifier teaching: An experimental study. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 7(3), 467-475. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0703.05.

Zhang, Liulin (2015). L1 and L2 short passive/inchoative selection of verbs in Mandarin Chinese. In H. Tao, Y.-H. Lee, D. Su, K. Tsurumi, W. Wang, & Y. Yang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-27) Vol.1 (pp. 54-71). Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved from http://naccl.osu.edu/proceedings/naccl-27/.

Ding, Xiaojun & Liulin Zhang (2014). 论修饰否定副词“不/没”的“一点儿也/都” Lun xiushi fouding fuci ‘bu/mei’ de ‘yidianr ye/dou’ [On yidianr ‘ye/dou’ modifying the negative adverbs ‘bu’ or ‘mei’]. 现代语文 Xiandai Yuwen [Modern Chinese], (1), 62-65. Available at http://www.cqvip.com/QK/87478A/201401/48782873.html.

He, Lin & Liulin Zhang (2012). 副词“才”的语义指向及计算机识别研究 Fuci ‘cai’ de yuyizhixiang ji jisuanji shibie yanjiu [On the semantic orientation and computer identification of the Chinese adverb ‘cai’], 长江学术 Changjiang Xueshu [Yangtze River Academic], (1), 119- 124. Available at http://lib.cqvip.com/qk/88790X/201201/42346760.html.

Zhang, Liulin (2012). 汉语流行语的翻译策略浅析——以“给力”为例 Hanyu liuxingyu de fanyi celve qianxi: Yi ‘geili’ wei li [Analysis into the translation strategies of the Chinese meme ‘geili’]. 西南农业大学学报（哲学社会科学版） Journal of Southwest Agricultural University (Volume of Social Science), (1), 109-110. Available at http://wenku.baidu.com/view/67b3ce16c281e53a5802ffeb.html.

Zhang, Liulin (2012). 从文学作品中的“顽石”意象对比中西文化中禁欲的男性话语 Cong wenxue zuopin zhong de ‘wanshi’ yixiang duibi zhong xi wenhua zhong jinyu de nanxing huayu [Comparison of the discourse of gender in asceticism from the images of stone in Chinese and Western literature]. 文言 [Wenyan (Journal of College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University)], (1), 31-35. (Click here to read)

You, Laiju & Liulin Zhang (2011). Cultural influence of Beijing Olympic Games. In Y. Tian (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth China National Convention on Sports Science (pp.365-369). Shanghai: World Academic Union.

Zhang, Liulin (2011). 对外汉语课堂中的流行语教学实践浅析——以“给力”为例 Duiwai hanyu ketang zhong de liuxingyu jiaoxue shijian qianxi: Yi ‘geili’ wei li [Preliminary analysis into meme teaching practicum in TCFL classroom: Take ‘geili’ as an example. 武汉大学研究生学报 [Journal of Graduate Students of Wuhan University], (3), 60-75. (Click here to read)

Zhang, Liulin (2011). 流行语“给力”的用法源流研究 Liuxingyu ‘geili’ de yongfa yuanliu yanjiu [Study on the evolution of the Chinese meme ‘Geili’]. 科技信息 Keji Xinxi [Science &Technology Information], (24), 123. Available at http://wenku.baidu.com/view/167ceb27453610661ed9f46d.html?re=view.