The Adjectives of Yueqing

This thesis explores the question of whether Yueqing, a Southern Chinese variety, has a category of adjectives. It explores the morpho-syntactic properties of nouns, verbs and adjectives, and proposes that adjectival concepts are expressed by words that belong to the syntactic category of verbs in the language. It further examines the aspectual classification of adjectival verbs and non-adjectival verbs, and finds that adjectival verbs are a subclass of stative verbs. It also finds that although bare adjectival verbs behave like stative verbs, they are special stative verbs that have the potential to undergo aspectual coercion and represent situations that are similar to activities and achievements.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Arts

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Lu, Xufan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ritter, Elizabeth A.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Pounder, Amanda
• Cai, Wei

• Yueqing
• Chinese
• syntactic category
• adjective
• lexical aspect
• situation type

Statement dc:rights

• University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/31861

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:1880/106575