SeekerOfPeace Posted April 14, 2007 at 06:44 AM Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 at 06:44 AM This is from my Chinese grammar book. Could anyone intensively vulgarize the following excerpt so it can be understood by mere mortals? Apart from differences in syntactic function and in syllabicity, which directly affects collocability,2 adjectives also differ in many other respects: qualifiers vs quantifiers, gradable vs non-gradable, conditional vs unconditional, derivable vs non-derivable, reduplicable vs non-reduplicable, phonaesthetic vs nonphonaesthetic, derogatory vs commendatory, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted April 14, 2007 at 06:58 AM Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 at 06:58 AM Aside from meaning and the number of syllables, which affect how and where adjectives can be used, Chinese adjectives also differ in other respects: - qualifiers vs quantifiers, - gradable vs non-gradable, - conditional vs unconditional, - derivable vs non-derivable, - reduplicable vs non-reduplicable, - phonaesthetic vs nonphonaesthetic, - derogatory vs commendatory, and - so on. Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekerOfPeace Posted April 14, 2007 at 07:16 AM Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 at 07:16 AM Thank god for that! Funny how the meaning is so simple but the form so much more complex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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