Two Types of Modifiers and Parallelisms between DPs and TPs in Chinese

Miao-Ling Hsieh

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Based on the occurrences of shenme 'what' in a nominal phrase, this study finds it necessary to distinguish two types of modifiers (including adjectives, relative clauses and nominals) in Chinese-individual-level modifiers and stagelevel modifiers. It is argued that there is a syntactic correlate for the two types of modifiers. The former are DP/D' modifiers, while the latter NP/N' modifiers. This analysis is based on several parallelisms found between DPs and TPs, including modification at different levels, subject raising and quantifier floating.

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