AP-de (地) Adverbs in Mandarin

Mandarin manner adverbs like dasheng ‘loudly’ (lit. ‘big voice’) occur both sentence-medially and sentence-finally, whereas adverbs formed with the adverbializer de (地) like kuaikuaide ‘quickly’ occur only sentence-medially. The behavior of AP-地 adverbs is puzzling under a classical adjunction analy...

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Main Author: Larson Richard K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-06-01
Series:Studies in Chinese Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2018-0001