Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin

In Mandarin Chinese, the degree word ji ‘extremely’ can occur either to the left of a gradable expression, like other degree words, or at the end of a sentence, followed by the particle le. Meanwhile, head dependencies have been recognized to be either syntactic or non-syntactic, and syntactic head dependencies can be established by either a movement chain or a non-movement dependency. This short paper argues for two dependencies in the ji-final construction in Mandarin: one is seen in the syntactic Focus Agree dependency of the non-temporal sentence-final le, and the other is seen in the non-syntactic head dependency of the degree word ji.