Study of Function and meaning of Chnese XYY adjective

Research Project

Project/Area Number	61510226
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	中国語・中国文学
Research Institution	University of Meiji
Principal Investigator	AIHARA SHIGRRU UNIVERSITY OF MEIJI, assistant professor, 経営学部, 助教授 (40115126)
Project Period (FY)	1986 – 1987
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1987)
Budget Amount *help	¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 1987: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 1986: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	XYY adjective / ABB adjective / 接尾辞型の状態形容詞 / 形容詞の重畳形 / 状態形容詞 / 情貌詞 / 中国語の擬態語
Research Abstract	ABB adjective has chatacteristics in its word form namely, A-is stem and BB is suffix. The suffix describes state,manner of degree of stem morpheme whi oh is normally composed ol abjective. Chinese abjective is devided into two classes: quality adj. and state adj . ABB adj belongs to state gtongtong is s state adj. tongtong not only indicates state of degree of hong but also implies spe akers aggirmative recognization of hong ABB adjective has 6 syntactic features ad followi ng: 1) it cant be negated by negative bu of mei. 2) it cant be modilied by degree adverbials. 3) it cant make repititional question such as ABB bu ABB?. 4) it cant reduplicate itseil like as ABBABB. 5) it is usually followed by particle de 6) it can be prefdicate,complement, abjective modifi er and abderbial moditier. Some adjective dont occur as A in ABB duo, shao, zao,wanyuan,jin,kuai,chi,quan,gui,zhen cant make ABB adjective,and these adjecteves are very common ones.