Eintrag

Titel

A Typological Study of Adjective Distribution: a Scale Structure View

Personen

Wenchao Li

Jahr

2017

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

Lincom

Ort

München

ISBN

978-3-86288-788-0

Reihe

Lincom studies in language typology

Band

30

URI

http://lincom-shop.eu/LSLT-30-A-typological-study-of-adjective-distribution-a-scale-structure-view

Sprache(n)

Chinesisch
Deutsch
Englisch
Verschiedene

Schlagwörter

Adverb

Abstract

This study is dedicated to how adjectives distribute in Altaic, Germanic and Sino-Tibetan languages based upon the framework ‘scale structure’. The findings reveal that the acceptability of Mongolian adjectives in resultatives runs from ‘Totally open-scale AP’ down to ‘Lower closed-scale AP, Upper-closed scale AP, Totally closed-scale AP’. Japanese adjectives are re-classified into two types, i.e. open-scale adjective (corresponding to traditional i-adjective) and closed-scale adjective (corresponding to traditional na-adjective). Both are capable of rendering an inherent result. The acceptability of APs in German direct perceptual complements runs from ‘Upper closed-scale AP/Lower closed-scale AP’ down to ‘Totally closed-scale AP/Totally open-scale AP’. English adjectives in perception expression are of no diverse acceptability. In Chinese, Upper closed-scale APs do not match well with closed-scale perceptual verbs. The ungrammaticality can be improved by supplying the expression with a tense or a syntactic context. Lower closed-scale AP does not seem capable of associating with closed-scale perceptual verbs. A proposal to treat the intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic variation is put forward, i.e. (a). Altaic languages appear to be EVENTUALITY-prominent languages. (b). Chinese and Germanic languages tend to be STATE-prominent.

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