The Chinese bi comparative

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• 作者：Chen-Sheng Luther Liu  ; ;   ; ^{csliu@faculty.nctu.edu.tw}
• 关键词：Adjunct phrases ; C-command ; Clausal comparatives ; Comparative deletion ; Comparative subdeletion ; Degree comparison ; Embedded standards ; Individual comparison ; Parallelism ; Phrasal comparatives
• 刊名：Lingua
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：September 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：121
• 期：12
• 页码：1767-1795
• 全文大小：309 K

文摘

Chinese bi comparatives should be divided into two types: phrasal and clausal. In the former, the prepositional subordinator bi introduces as standard of comparison one syntactic constituent that does not involve comparative deletion; in the latter, however, a clause with more than one standard constituent is introduced and this clause obligatorily involves comparative deletion and a degree operator-variable binding relation in syntax. Among the conditions to which building a Chinese bi comparative is subject, two conditions interact to disallow comparative subdeletion: (A) the bi phrase occurs as an adjunct phrase adjoined to the left of the predicate of comparison and (B) the standard constituent must be minimally c-commanded by its corresponding main clause correlate.