Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures
The paper discusses the universality of the final-over-final condition (FOFC). It has been proposed that sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese may invalidate the universality of FOFC. This paper argues that the challenge from SFPs is inconclusive since the evidence for the head status of SFPs i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0005 |