A comparative with two standards of comparison
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
-
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