TY - JOUR A1 - Hsieh, I-Ta Chris A1 - Shen, Zheng ED - Grubic, Mira ED - Mucha, Anne T1 - The ‘Associative Reading’ of DPs and the quantity vs. quality distinction JF - Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 N2 - This paper investigates an unnoticed difference in Mandarin between the Q-adjectives and the gradable adjectives of quality and shows that this observation follows straightforwardly from a theory that differentiates gradable predication of quantity and that of quality (e.g., Rett 2008; Lin 2014; Solt 2015; a.o.). Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92304 SP - 18 EP - 35 ER -