Title: Dimension-denoting classifiers in Taiwanese compound adjectives
Authors: Liu, Chen-Sheng Luther
外國語文學系
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Keywords: Adjectives;Classifiers;Taiwanese A-CL sequences;Compound adjectives;Dimension providers;Ordering functions;Single-dimension denoting classifiers;Multi-dimension denoting classifiers
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2010
Abstract: This paper analyzes Taiwanese A-CL sequences as compound adjectives by treating the classifier inside such sequences as a dimension provider and the adjective as involving an ordering function. Combined with the assumption that classifiers occurring as the CL of A-CL compound adjectives should be divided into single-dimension denoting and multi-dimension denoting elements, the analysis provides a rationale for why the adjectives permitted in A-CL compound adjectives have the interesting and otherwise perplexing property of being so limited in number.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-010-9059-7
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/27286
ISSN: 0925-8558
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-010-9059-7
Journal: JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Begin Page: 181
End Page: 205
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