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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