%0 Journal Article
%T Nominal Predicates in Mandarin Chinese
%A Ting-Chi Wei
%J Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
%D 2007
%I Crane Publishing Co
%X This article reconsiders Tang¡¯s (1998) analysis of Mandarin matrix small clauses (SC) in an attempt to get a better understanding of the structure of the Mandarin nominal predicate. It is found that the structures which the nominal predicate can take can be a bare NP or even not-so-bare projections. All the nominal predicates manifest a kind of modifier-modifiee pattern, which implements ¡®modificational predication¡¯ of the subject. Thus, the matrix SC is structurally ¡°not-so-bare¡± rather than ¡°bare¡±. Finally, the claim of Mandarin indefinite/definite DP as an argument, not a predicate is further strengthened in this work.
%K nominal predicate
%K modifier-modifiee
%K modificational predication
%K NumP
%K indefinite
%U http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume5-2/5.2-4Wei.pdf