XA state adjectives in Yiyang Dialect are fairly abundant, which represent various meanings such as sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing and so on. Except a small portion of the words which represent a specific meaning, the first word X of most XA state adjectives is grammaticalized, which means that the adjective represents no specific lexical meaning but simply enhances the degree of A. The next word A is the major root morpheme of the whole structure. XA has a variety of forms to enhance the degree of A. In the sentence, it may work as predicate, attributive, complement or adverbial. Certain...
