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This paper reanalyzes the morpheme ke in the “ke+X” adjectives and categorizes these adjectives into four classes according to their different degrees of lexicalization. This paper also argues from the perspective of grammaticalization that bound morphemes can also develop into affixes or quasi-affixes.
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Qi, F. (2016). A Finer-Grained Classification of the Morpheme ke in the “ke+X” Adjectives. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_6
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