A Study on the Syntactic Characteristics of Bare Comparative Constructions in Modern Chinese
Mandarin Chinese has an unmarked comparative construction(bare comparative), [NP1+Adj+NP2+MP] (NP1 = comparee, Adj = adjective, NP2 = standard, MP = measure phrase), which lacks an overt comparative marker such as bi (比). This paper aims to demonstrate that this construction is not an elliptical variant of marked comp...