Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in gradable adjectives

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Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement (2012, methodology): “For the purposes of this paper, however, we will follow Grano (2012) (whose arguments are based on the grammar of the positive form in Mandarin) in assuming that the positive form is derived not via composition with null morphology, but via a typeshift which maps a degree relation to a property…”