The effect of the quantity properties of adjectives on their syntactic behaviors
Yuzhi Shi · Shijie hanyu jiaoxue · 2003
This paper systematically addresses the relationship between the quantity properties of adjectives and their syntactic behaviors. Quantity is one of the dispensable factors of human categorization, which to great extent determines the syntactic behavior of the related lexical item. As a result, natural language contains many sophisticated mathematical thoughts. According to their quantity properties, adjectives have been classified into four types: 1) degree words; 2) limit; 3) percent; and 4) positive negative, which differ from one another syntactically. In addition, by using English examples, we have shown that the same semantic categorization might possess different quantity properties due to different angles of cognition and thus could vary syntactically.