This lecture will be given in hybrid modality, at Somerville College, Oxford, and via Zoom.
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Reduplicated Manner Adverbials in Mandarin, presented at the MiMA! workshop 2025
Written by Xinyu Zhu (Newcastle University), recipient of a travel and fieldwork bursary from the Philological Society.
On March 6th and 7th, 2025, I attended the Mind Your Manner Adverbials! (MiMA!) workshop held at Utrecht University. This workshop marked the culmination of the Mind Your Manner Adverbials! project, providing a platform to share its findings and bringing together both junior and senior researchers to discuss the grammar of manner adverbials. With the generous support of PhilSoc’s Travel and Fieldwork Bursary, I had the opportunity to give an oral presentation on my ongoing PhD research, which is closely related to the topic of manner adverbials. The topic of my presentation is the syntax of reduplicated AABB pattern manner adverbials in Mandarin. …
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