The Phenomena of Using Adjectives as Verbs and Using Nouns as Adjectives in Chinese
Puyuan Ye, Deniz Satık · Journal of Student Research · 2022
In Chinese, adjectives are sometimes used as verbs and nouns are sometimes used as adjectives, especially online. Usually, although the word occupies only one part of speech, it may be used as another part of speech, which may violate the syntactical rules but make sense to most people. In this paper, various examples of these two phenomena will be closely examined, tests are implemented to verify the original part of speech of the exact word that is used as a different part of speech, and many observations are made.