Subject Raising in Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verb Constructions: A-movement or A′-movement?
Subject raising in Chinese modal auxiliary verb constructions can be either A-movement or A′-movement. Modal auxiliary verbs such as hui and yao can take a nonfinite TP complement which cannot value the abstract case of the embedded subject. Hence the embedded subject must get its case valued by the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2022-0003 |