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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Main Authors:	Cheng Gong, Yi Zhao-Hui, Xiong Jian-Guo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2016-12-01
Series:	Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Subjects:	alethic acq distributed morphology lowering raising chinese southeast asian languages
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0004

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spelling	doaj-cd93b7dc846a4f8bb5c74582590a770f2021-09-05T14:00:26ZengSciendoStudies in Chinese Linguistics1017-12742016-12-013727510810.1515/scl-2016-0004Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian LanguagesCheng Gong0Yi Zhao-Hui1Xiong Jian-Guo2School of International Studies, Zhejiang UniversityDepartment of Asian Languages, Luoyang University of Foreign LanguagesDepartment of Language Engineering, Luoyang University of Foreign LanguagesThe 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 suggest that ACQ is base-generated in a preverbal node as a modal element and lowers to a postverbal position during its derivation on the PF branch. We compare and contrast the proposed lowering account with the other model of analysis, the raising analysis, and demonstrate that the lowering account is superior both conceptually and empirically.https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0004alethic acqdistributed morphologyloweringraisingchinesesoutheast asian languages
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spellingShingle	Cheng Gong Yi Zhao-Hui Xiong Jian-Guo Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages Studies in Chinese Linguistics alethic acq distributed morphology lowering raising chinese southeast asian languages
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title	Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
title_short	Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
title_full	Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
title_fullStr	Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
title_full_unstemmed	Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
title_sort	raising or lowering?—a case study of alethic acq in chinese and southeast asian languages
publisher	Sciendo
series	Studies in Chinese Linguistics
issn	1017-1274
publishDate	2016-12-01
description	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 suggest that ACQ is base-generated in a preverbal node as a modal element and lowers to a postverbal position during its derivation on the PF branch. We compare and contrast the proposed lowering account with the other model of analysis, the raising analysis, and demonstrate that the lowering account is superior both conceptually and empirically.
topic	alethic acq distributed morphology lowering raising chinese southeast asian languages
url	https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0004
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Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages

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