Mandarin de-adjectival degree achievements as inchoative statives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21757005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anqi Zhang (0000-0002-0195-5429, Nanjing University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 147-181 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Linguistics 語言暨語言學 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1606-822X • E-ISSN: 2309-5067 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lali.00128.zha |
| OpenAlex | W4312123879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Mandarin degree adjectives can give rise to a degree achievement reading with the perfective marker le . In this paper, I argue that de-adjectival degree achievements in Mandarin are inchoative statives, whose core meaning component is a reflexive comparative that compares the present state with a previous state in some property of the same individual. My new analysis better captures the facts that de-adjectival degree achievements show variable telicity, that they give rise to stative readings with duration phrases, and that they are compatible with time as a comparative standard. Because the comparison is between two states at different times, a degree-achievement reading can be inferred even though the predicate is stative in semantics
Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
The Parameter of Aspect
Word Meaning and Montague Grammar
Vagueness and grammar
Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in "Degree Achievements"
Measure of change
Syntax
Temporal Reference in Mandarin Chinese
Why Chinese verb-le is a resultative predicate
Degreeless Comparatives
Time in a Language Without Tense
Aspectual viewpoint and situation type in Mandarian Chinese
Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement
Semantic Account of the Stative Adverb Gap
Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives
Inchoativity, change of state, and telicity
Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in gradable adjectives
Clausal comparison without degree abstraction in Mandarin Chinese
Verbs and Times
Degree achievements, telicity and the verbal prefix meN- in Malay
Aspectual coercion and the typology of change of state predicates
Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin Chinese
Telic senses of deadjectival verbs
Chinese comparatives and their implicational parameters
Total and partial predicates and the weak and strong interpretations
The Chinese bi comparative
Aspectual selection and negation in Mandarin Chinese
Degree words and scalar structure in Japanese
Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |