Rhetorical Questions and Polarity Licensing: On Cantonese Modal Sai2
This paper investigates the deontic modal sai2 in Cantonese. I argue that sai2 is an NPI and a negative operator is induced at the sentence-initial position by the SFPs me1 or aa4 in rhetorical questions. In SAI sentence, sai2 must syntactically agree with the negative operator for licensing, and mi...
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| Language: | English |
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2022-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2022-0005 |