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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- © The Edinburgh Law Review Trust and the Contributors 2009
- Subject
- Articles; Linguistics
- ISSN
- 1750-1245
- eISSN
- 1755-2036
- DOI
- 10.3366/E1750124509000452
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
<jats:p>Mandarin Chinese has three A+N constructions with distinct formal properties. One construction is clearly phrasal, one clearly constitutes a compound. The status of the third construction is controversial, being analysed either as a compound or as a phrase. Frequently drawing on data from Germanic A+N constructions for comparison, I show in this article that this issue is undecidable on the basis of the Mandarin data. On the other hand, I argue that the third construction cannot be collapsed with either of the other two constructions, regardless of whether it is analysed as a compound or a phrase.</jats:p>
Journal
Word Structure – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2009