Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
The present paper proposes a morphological lowering analysis for the structure associated with alethic ACQ, a postverbal morpheme capable of denoting the modality of ability and possibility in Chinese as well as many Southeast Asian languages. Built in the framework of distributed morphology, we sug...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2016-12-01
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Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0004 |