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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Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153553 |