Abstract
This paper investigates the degree usage of 
[cai] and some relevant issues. It is argued that in this case cai and the sentence final particle 
[ne] form a discontinuous constituent, which modifies the element surrounded by it.“
” [cai…ne’] requires that the element modified by it has the gradable property. Thus only qualified VPs, AdjPs and NegPs can co-occur with ‘cai…ne’. Some characteristics of ‘cai…ne’ are shown by comparing it with other degree adverbs. Moreover, the syntactic structure and semantic interpretation of ‘cai…ne’ are given.
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Zhang, L. (2018). The Degree Usage of Cai and Relevant Issues. In: Wu, Y., Hong, JF., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_11
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