Adjectival modification to nouns in Mandarin Chinese: Case studies on "cháng+noun" and "adjective+tú shū guǎn"

Shan Wang; Chu-ren Huang

Adjectival modification to nouns in Mandarin Chinese: Case studies on "cháng+noun" and "adjective+tú shū guǎn"

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Abstract

This paper studies the adjectival modification to nouns in Mandarin Chinese based on selective binding. The main findings include: (1)An adjective can select different types of head nouns as arguments and an adjective may modify an individual or an event. (2)The qualia structure of a noun helps us better understand an adjective's selectional preference. Meanwhile, an adjective can modify multi-facet or one facet of the qualia role of a noun. (3) The adjacent adjective of a noun is not necessarily modifying the noun.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Pages	701-705
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010
Event	24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 24 - Sendai, Japan Duration: 4 Nov 2010 → 7 Nov 2010

Conference

Conference	24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 24
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Sendai
Period	4/11/10 → 7/11/10

Keywords

Adjectival modification to nouns
Qualia structure
Selective binding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Adjectival modification to nouns in Mandarin Chinese: Case studies on "cháng+noun" and "adjective+tú shū guǎn". / Wang, Shan; Huang, Chu-ren.

PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. 2010. p. 701-705.

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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