RT Journal Article
T1 Chinese DE and the DE-construction
A1 Zhang, Ning
AB This paper analyzes the derivations of the DE construction, showing thatan antecedent-free DE construction is derived by deverbalization and anantecedent-dependent DE construction is derived by ellipsis. Semantically,the former process is substantivization and the latter defocalization.Relating the antecedent-dependent DE construction to other nominalellipses and the verb gapping construciton, I discuss a new type of ellipsiswhich can take an ellipsis site as its linguistic antecedent. Furthermore,I argue that the syntactic status of the word de in a nominal is a functionalcategory, heading an nP consistently.
YR 2010
FD 2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3199
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3199
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026