2022
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Hilary Chappell, « Pan-Sinitic equatives in the context of mainland Southeast Asia », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.9ebd7f...
In equative constructions, an entity, NPA, the Comparatum is essentially judged against a benchmark, NPB, the Standard, in order to express that both possess an equal degree of the given dimension or quality (the Parameter). Also called comparatives of equality, equatives have been variously analysed from a structural viewpoint in Bisang (1998), Henkelmann (2006), and Haspelmath (2017) inter alia who respectively observe that this construction type may also include a Standard Marker and a Degree or Parameter Marker. Nonetheless, to date there has been no in-depth typological study focusing on equatives in Sinitic with respect to the Southeast Asian linguistic area, nor one that essentially relies on a semantic approach in the analysis of grammatical constructions, following Wierzbicka (1996, 1998).