{"title":"A comparative with two standards of comparison","authors":"C. Liu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.17003.LIU","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This article discusses the syntax and semantics of the DS comparative in Chinese, which is an adjectival comparative in which the\n sequence gèng duō ‘even-more much’ occurs as the degree búyǔ complement clause of the matrix\n adjective. The element duō ‘much’ is a quantity-adjective that interacts with gèng ‘even-more’\n to introduce an additional standard of comparison into the DS comparative in order to make the comparison denoted by the degree\n búyǔ complement clause possible.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.17003.LIU","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
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.