Classification of Mandarin Chinese simple adjectives : a scale-based analysis of their quantitative denotations

• Main Authors: Lin, Jingxia, Peck, Jeeyoung
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Mandarin Chinese; Quantitative Denotations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83336; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45243
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This work provides an analysis of the quantitative denotations of simple adjectives (base adjectival forms) in Mandarin Chinese following recent analyses of the ‘scale structure’ associated with English adjectives. Against a widely accepted assumption that simple adjectives unitarily denote an unbou...