On the Procedures and Patterns of Multiple Comparisons in Comparative Sentences Using ɡènɡ
Zhang Yishen · Shijie hanyu jiaoxue · 2009
The sentence using ɡenɡ has three or more sequential comparative items,which involve multiple comparisons of two items. Because of differences of basic comparative points,three comparative patterns can be identified:the successive progressive comparison,the reverse progressive comparison and the interactive progressive comparison. Sentences of multiple comparisons including respective comparison and simultaneous comparison are not real multiple comparisons. Multiple comparisons include various patterns such as concurrent comparison,combining comparison,generic-specific comparison,fuzzy comparison,etc. The negative forms of multiple sequential comparative sentences have characteristics in terms of contents,markers,presuppositions,etc.,but they are basically consistent with their affirmative counterparts in such aspects as comparative items,basic points and patters and are all multiple comparisons of two items.