Functional head properties of the degree word 'Hen' in Mandarin Chinese

• Niina Ning Zhang ^[1]
  1. [1] National Chung Cheng University

     National Chung Cheng University

     W. District, Taiwán

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 153, 2015, págs. 14-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Drawing on syntactic evidence, this paper shows that the functional projection DegP is attested in Mandarin Chinese, and the degree word hen ‘very’ heads DegP. The former finding is based on the fact that the string 'hen'-XP exhibits a different distribution from XP. The latter finding is based on the facts that hen and adjective reduplication are in complementary distribution, and that 'hen' can be stranded at the sentence-final position, like some other head elements in the language.