The Adjectival Intensifier h?n in Mandarin Chinese

• 作者: Liu Haiyong
• 来源期刊: 宏观语言学
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: MANDARIN Chinese h?n ADJECTIVE type-lifting VP MOVEMENT IP MOVEMENT
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 57-69
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

Huang (2006) argues that h?n ‘very’, the Mandarin adjective intensifier, is anobligatory type-lifter that transforms simple adjectives to complex adjectives for predicatehood,as is required by the Property Theory (Chierchia, 1984, 1985). This article studies theother cases where h?n is not obligatory and concludes that, in addition to h?n-insertion,affixation, and reduplication identified by Huang (2006), the negator bù and VP or IPmovement can also function as type-lifters for simple adjectives. I further argue that onlyone type-lifter device is allowed per sentence.