The Phenomena of Using Adjectives as Verbs and Using Nouns as Adjectives in Chinese

Authors

  • Puyuan Ye Shanghai Pinghe School
  • Deniz Satik Harvard University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i4.3571

Keywords:

Linguistics, Syntax, Part of speech, Chinese, Online

Abstract

In Chinese, adjectives are sometimes used as verbs and nouns are sometimes used as adjectives, especially online. Usually, although the word occupies only one part of speech, it may be used as another part of speech, which may violate the syntactical rules but make sense to most people. In this paper, various examples of these two phenomena will be closely examined, tests are implemented to verify the original part of speech of the exact word that is used as a different part of speech, and many observations are made.

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Deniz Satik, Harvard University

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Published

11-30-2022

How to Cite

Ye, P., & Satik, D. (2022). The Phenomena of Using Adjectives as Verbs and Using Nouns as Adjectives in Chinese. Journal of Student Research, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i4.3571

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HS Research Articles