標題: The adjective da in Taiwanese Mandarin: degree, measurement and roots
作者: Liu, Chen-Sheng Luther
外國語文學系
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
關鍵字: Degree;Distributed morphology;Measurement;Root;Taiwanese Mandarin
公開日期: 1-五月-2020
摘要: This study shows how what has been originally ascribed to the 'lexicon' is 'distributed' among different components of syntax and how degrees are compositionally introduced across categories by investigating the syntax and semantics of the Taiwanese Mandarin X hen da construction. In this construction, degrees are compositionally introduced by the literally vacuous adjective da 'DA', which contributes a structure-preserving map from entities, events or states to their measures along various dimensions (Wellwood in Linguist Philos 38(1):67-101, 2015). Syntactically, the constituent hen da 'HEN DA' functions to be predicated of the root of the X component at the root-level, and the root later must move into the corresponding light head position to be categorically defined.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-020-09206-8
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/154560
ISSN: 0925-8558
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-020-09206-8
期刊: JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
起始頁: 119
結束頁: 157
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