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1、[toappearinLinguisticsvol.43,n°4(2005)]*AdjectivalmodificationinMandarinChineseandrelatedissuesWaltraudPAULwpaul@ehess.frFebruary2004AgainstthebackgroundofrecenttypologicalstudiespostulatingcrosslinguisticallyvalidhierarchiesforthemodifierswithintheDP(cf.Scott1998;2002(a,b),Chaoetal.2001,
2、Laenzlinger2000),thepresentarticlearguesthatbothtypesofmodificationavailableinMandarinChinesehavetobetakenintoaccount:thatwherethesubordinatordeintervenesbetweentheadjectiveandtheheadnoun,‘AdeN',andthecaseofsimplejuxtapositionoftheadjectiveandthenoun‘AN’.Extensiveevidenceisprovidedagainst
3、thewidespreadideathatattributiveadjectivesinMandarinChinesecanbeanalysedasrelativeclausesandthat‘AN’de-lessmodificationstructuresarecompounds(cf.Sproat&Shih1988,1991,Duanmu1998,Simpson2001).Asaconsequence,adjectivescannotbeconflatedwithintransitivestativeverbs,buthavetoberecognizedasasepa
4、ratepartofspeechinMandarinChinese.1.IntroductionAdjectivesareanotoriouslydifficultissueinChineselinguisticsandhavebeenratherneglectedduringthelastdecadesbymoretheoreticallyorientedstudies.Toelucidatethestatusofadjectivesbecomesnecessaryinordertoguaranteethecommensurabilityofthephenomenaex
5、aminedifMandarinChineseistobeincludedintypologicalstudiesofadjectivalmodificationintheDP.ThissubjecthasregainedtheoreticalimportanceduetotheclaimmadebyCinque(1994)andelaboratedbye.g.Scott(1998;2002a,b),Chaoetal.(2001),Laenzlinger(2000)thatthefunctionalhierarchiesintheclauseproposedforadve
6、rbs(cf.Cinque1999andTenny2000)mightbeobservableintheDPaswell.ThecrucialproblemforthiskindofinvestigationwhenappliedtoMandarinChineseistodeterminewhichtypeofmodification,thatwiththesubordinatorde,'adjectivedeN',orthatwithoutde,'adjectiveN',iscomparabletomodificationinlanguageslikeEnglish,F
7、rench,orGermanwhereadjectivalmodifiersaresimplyjuxtaposedwiththeheadnoun.ItisimportanttonotefromtheoutsetthattheSAMEadjectivecanappearwithorwithoutdeinalargenumberofcases,andthatthechoicebetweenthede-lessmodificationstructureandthemodificationstructurewithdecutsacro
