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  • 15 - Complex Modifying Forms

  • from Part III - Expanding Features
  • Jessie Peterson
  • Book:
    How to Create a Language
    Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 330-358

  • Summary

    Building on the foundation in Chapter 14, this chapter focuses on more complex modifying forms, including strategies for using adjective (or adjective-like) forms in more grammatical contexts. The first section explores equative (or copular) clause structures and predicative modifiers. The second section moves on to nonfinite verbs and the ways they can be used in clause structures to function in adjectival, nominal, and even adverbial roles. The third, and final, section investigates comparative forms in languages. This chapter will expand your language’s treatment of different types of modification and nonfinite verb forms.

  • 11 - The Comparative Construction

  • Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore
  • Book:
    The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 273-295

  • Summary

    At the very beginning of documented history, Chinese already possessed the comparative structure, but since then it has undergone fundamental changes in structure and markings. As a result, the comparative structure in present-day Chinese looks odd and does not fit any pattern of language universals on the basis of a typological investigation. This chapter explains the typological change in the Chinese comparative construction.