AP-de Adverbs in Mandarin

Mandarin manner adverbs like dasheng 'loudly' (lit. 'big voice') occur both sentence-medially and sentence-finally, whereas adverbs formed with the adverbializer de like kuaikuaide 'quickly' occur only sentence-medially. The behavior of AP- adverbs is puzzling under a classical adjunction analysis and under Cinque's (1999) hierarchy of functional projections. Here, I argue that Mandarin manner adverbs have a uniform low attachment in V complement position and that preverbal/medial position reflects obligatory movement imposed by the status of as a "concordializing element".