Author： Liu Chen-Sheng
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0925-8558
Source： Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol.19, Iss.2, 2010-06, pp. : 181-205
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Abstract
This paper analyzes Taiwanese A-CL sequences as compound adjectives by treating the classifier inside such sequences as a dimension provider and the adjective as involving an ordering function. Combined with the assumption that classifiers occurring as the CL of A-CL compound adjectives should be divided into single-dimension denoting and multi-dimension denoting elements, the analysis provides a rationale for why the adjectives permitted in A-CL compound adjectives have the interesting and otherwise perplexing property of being so limited in number.
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