The Adjectival Intensifier hĕn in Mandarin Chinese
Huang (2006) argues that hĕn ‘very’, the Mandarin adjective intensifier, is an obligatory type-lifter that transforms simple adjectives to complex adjectives for predicate- hood, as is required by the Property Theory (Chierchia, 1984, 1985). This article studies the other cases where hĕn is not obli...
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Language: | English |
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The Learned Press
2019-06-01
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Series: | Macrolinguistics |
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Online Access: | http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=801& |