Syntactic Sources of Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

Cinque (2010, 2014) shows that in English and Italian, adjectives have two syntactic sources, each with different interpretive properties; one source corresponding to predicative adjectives; the other to non-predicative adjectives. This study examines adjectives in Mandarin Chinese with the goal of...

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Main Author: Liu Feng-hsi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-06-01
Series:Studies in Chinese Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0002