标题: Chinese comparatives and their implicational parameters
作者: Lin, Jo-wang
外国语文学系
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
关键字: Chinese comparatives;Phrasal comparatives;Dyadic comparison
公开日期: 1-三月-2009
摘要: This paper argues that superiority comparatives in Mandarin Chinese are all phrasal comparatives that can be directly interpreted, and makes a new suggestion of taking the bC-phrase ('compare-phrase') to be an adjunct and one constituent, but with bC-shells. This syntactic analysis allows one to combine into one phrase various compared constituents that would otherwise not be analyzed as forming a phrase by themselves. Semantically, in extension of work by Heim as well as Bhatt and Takahashi, bC is taken to compare two sequences of arguments of a gradable predicate along the dimension given by that predicate. It is also suggested that comparatives across languages may be subject to three parameters: (i) argument-dependent comparison vs. non-argument dependent comparison, (ii) phrasal comparison vs. clausal comparison, and (iii) monoadic comparison vs. dyadic comparison.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11050-008-9033-3
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/11122
ISSN: 0925-854X
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-008-9033-3
期刊: NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS
Volume: 17
Issue: 1
起始页: 1
结束页: 27
显示于类别:Conferences Paper


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