An Optimality Theoretic Description on the Characteristics of Postpositions in Mandarin Chinese
In this paper, we adopt optimality theory to describe some important properties of postpositions. First, they follow the complement in their own projections. Second, they select either an NP or a PrepP as the complement, but they do not select another PostP as the complement to avoid the adjacency o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-09-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020958729 |