<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Mandarin manner adverbs like dasheng ‘loudly’ (lit. ‘big voice’) occur both sentence-medially and sentence-finally, whereas adverbs formed with the adverbializer de (地) like kuaikuaide ‘quickly’ occur only sentence-medially. The behavior of AP-地 adverbs is puzzling under a classical adjunction analysis and under Cinque’s (1999) hierarchy of functional projections. Here, I argue that Mandarin manner adverbs have a uniform low attachment in V complement position and that preverbal/medial position reflects obligatory movement imposed by the status of 地 as a “concordializing element”.</p></abstract>

Mandarin manner adverbs like dasheng ‘loudly’ (lit. ‘big voice’) occur both sentence-medially and sentence-finally, whereas adverbs formed with the adverbializer de (地) like kuaikuaide ‘quickly’ occur only sentence-medially. The behavior of AP-地 adverbs is puzzling under a classical adjunction analysis and under Cinque’s (1999) hierarchy of functional projections. Here, I argue that Mandarin manner adverbs have a uniform low attachment in V complement position and that preverbal/medial position reflects obligatory movement imposed by the status of 地 as a “concordializing element”.

AP-de (地) Adverbs in Mandarin

Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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Mandarin manner adverbs like dasheng ‘loudly’ (lit. ‘big voice’) occur both sentence-medially and sentence-finally, whereas adverbs formed with the...

AP-de (地) Adverbs in Mandarin

Published Online: Jun 01, 2018

Page range: 1 - 28

Received: Aug 24, 2017

Accepted: Oct 16, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2018-0001

Keywords
Mandarin, manner adverbs, case, concord

© 2018 Richard K. Larson, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

AP-de (地) Adverbs in Mandarin

Published Online: Jun 01, 2018

Page range: 1 - 28

Received: Aug 24, 2017

Accepted: Oct 16, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2018-0001

KeywordsMandarin, manner adverbs, case, concord

© 2018 Richard K. Larson, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Mandarin, manner adverbs, case, concord