Browsing by Author "Yang, Meng"
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Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English
Yang, Meng; 0009-0009-2699-2056 (2023-08-23)This dissertation examines a group of Metalinguistic Comparatives (MCs) in Mandarin Chinese, exploring what they suggest about the universality of comparatives. I show that Chinese MCs encode a more fine-grained scalarity ...