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From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructA Degree-Based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct: A Degree-Based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction [This paper examines how both the result-realization and result-deviation interpretations of “V+A+le2” construction arise under the framework of degree semantics. It is argued that “V+A+le2” construction is a comparative construction and that different interpretations arise because different standards of comparation are adopted. Result-realization interpretations are seen in all instances of the construction while result-deviation interpretations can be found only in instances with open-scale adjective. Moreover, the syntactic structure plays a role in determining whether the “A” encodes a measure function or the “V+A” encodes a measure of change function in the “V+A+le2” comparative construction.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructA Degree-Based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 9)
Editors: Su, Qi; Zhan, Weidong
Zhang, Mengjie; Duan, Wenhua; Lin, Yunqing
From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct — Sep 26, 2019
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Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2020
ISBN
978-981-32-9239-0
Pages
91 –100
DOI
10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6_7
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Abstract

[This paper examines how both the result-realization and result-deviation interpretations of “V+A+le2” construction arise under the framework of degree semantics. It is argued that “V+A+le2” construction is a comparative construction and that different interpretations arise because different standards of comparation are adopted. Result-realization interpretations are seen in all instances of the construction while result-deviation interpretations can be found only in instances with open-scale adjective. Moreover, the syntactic structure plays a role in determining whether the “A” encodes a measure function or the “V+A” encodes a measure of change function in the “V+A+le2” comparative construction.]

Published: Sep 26, 2019

Keywords: “V+A+ le 2” construction; Scale; Measure function; Measure of change function

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