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