Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals

Based on a hitherto neglected set of multiple pre-subject modal sentences, this article offers a novel syntactic account of Mandarin modals whereby the derivation of pre-subject modal sentences involves Internal Merge of modals to specifiers of the left-peripheral focus projection, and discusses new...

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Автори: Lai, Jackie Yan-Ki, Li, Haoming
Інші автори: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Формат: Стаття
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2024
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Онлайн доступ:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153553