Sui complementi introdotti da de nella lingua cinese moderna

The paper aims to shed lights on the so called complements of degree in modern Chinese, that is a grammatical units, generally made up of a verbal or an adjectival expression, that occurs after the main verb in a sentence, headed by a structure particle de. In the paper properties and distinctive features of different complements of degree are analysed, and four kinds of such complements are distinguished: complements expressing intensity, complements of consequence, complements of state, complements of manner.