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Article published In: International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Vol. 5:2 (2018) ► pp.195–225

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A comparative with two standards of comparison

 | National Chiao Tung University
Published online: 13 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.17003.liu
Abstract
This article discusses the syntax and semantics of the DS comparative in Chinese, which is an adjectival comparative in which the sequence gèng duō ‘even-more much’ occurs as the degree búyǔ complement clause of the matrix adjective. The element duō ‘much’ is a quantity-adjective that interacts with gèng ‘even-more’ to introduce an additional standard of comparison into the DS comparative in order to make the comparison denoted by the degree búyǔ complement clause possible.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The syntactic and semantic properties of DS comparative
    • 2.1The syntactic properties
    • 2.2The semantic properties
  • 3. Lin (2014)
  • 4.The proposal
    • 4.1The syntax of the DS comparative
    • 4.2The semantics of the DS comparative
  • 5.Empirical and theoretical implications
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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