The sentences in (13) are truth-conditionally equivalent: ‘the number of books that I bought is bigger than 2’; but they differ on the surface depending on whether the NPlibros‘books’ is immediately adjacent to the numeral in (13a) or immediately adjacent tomásin (13b). Comparative num...
seldom, and the like. Adverbs such asusually,typically, andin generalare closest in meaning to the generic operator, which often is not realized phonologically”. As such, in their view the more prototypical instances of habituality express a law-like pattern, which occurs often and regularly,...
gene names that are synonyms of chemicals (e.g., ROS, PGE2); and many short names or symbols (e.g., AS) that are synonyms of genes (e.g., HLA-B) and chemicals (e.g., ammonium trichloro(dioxoethylene-O, O'-)tellurate) and are confusable with commonly used adverbs, prepositions ...
However, other Sino‑Tibetan languages, which retain the verb‑final basic word order, also use the head‑initial order for adjectival and quantity modifications as well as degree adverbs, all of which appear as head‑final in Chinese lan‑ guages. The situation is indeed fuzzier for ...