Title: Differentiation of Spatial Meaning: Expression of Noun Properties (1)
Abstract: This paper starts with a distinction of nouns in its spatial meanings and other meaning categories and proceeds to analyze the expression of properties in modern Chinese nouns and to discuss the various forms and semantic traits of nouns in stating and referring to property meanings when nouns are employed as attributes,predicates and in the pattern of adverbs of the 'very' category +N.It is opined that there is a developmental process and a transitional phase from attributes through predicates to the pattern of adverbs of the 'very' category +N and to adverbials in the expression of property meanings by modern Chinese nouns.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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