Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3988583
AutoresWillow Paul (0000-0001-6154-4536, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, autor correspondente), Waltraud Paul
Ano2005
Volume43
Fascículo4
Páginas757-793
Data de publicação2005-01-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2005.43.4.757
OpenAlexW1980002769
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências 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