Parameter Preservation at the Syntax-PF Interface: The Ba Construction Revisited
In this paper, I argue for an analysis that treats the ba construction in Chinese as a case of shape preservation-induced movement structure. Specifically, the robust preverbal adverbial and PP expressions and the mandatory ba-DP movement in ditransitive structures are both derived from a violable h...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2018-0002 |