Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3988583
AutoresWillow Paul (0000-0001-6154-4536, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, autor de correspondencia), Waltraud Paul
Año2005
Volumen43
Número4
Páginas757-793
Fecha de publicación2005-01-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2005.43.4.757
OpenAlexW1980002769
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas11

Against the background of recent typological studies postulating crosslinguistically valid hierarchies for the modifiers within the DP (cf. Scott 1998, 2002a, 2002b; Chao et al. 2001; Laenzlinger 2000), the present article argues that both types of modification available in Mandarin Chinese have to be taken into account: that where the subordinator de intervenes between the adjective and the head noun — ‘A de N’ — and the case of simple juxtaposition of the adjective and the noun ‘A N.’ Extensive evidence is provided against the widespread idea that attributive adjectives in Mandarin Chinese can be analyzed as relative clauses and that ‘A N’ de -less modification structures are compounds (cf. Sproat and Shih 1988, 1991; Duanmu 1998; Simpson 2001). As a consequence, adjectives cannot be conflated with intransitive stative verbs, but have to be recognized as a separate part of speech in Mandarin Chinese

Adjective · Adverbial · Attributive · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Noun · Relative clause · Subordinator · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation