Classification of Mandarin Chinese simple adjectives : a scale-based analysis of their quantitative denotations

This work provides an analysis of the quantitative denotations of simple adjectives (base adjectival forms) in Mandarin Chinese following recent analyses of the ‘scale structure’ associated with English adjectives. Against a widely accepted assumption that simple adjectives unitarily denote an unbou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lin, Jingxia, Peck, Jeeyoung
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83336
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45243