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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Autores principales:	Cheng Gong, Yi Zhao-Hui, Xiong Jian-Guo
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2016
Materias:	alethic acq distributed morphology lowering raising chinese southeast asian languages Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cd93b7dc846a4f8bb5c74582590a770f2021-12-02T15:27:26ZRaising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages1017-127410.1515/scl-2016-0004https://doaj.org/article/cd93b7dc846a4f8bb5c74582590a770f2016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0004https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274The 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.Cheng GongYi Zhao-HuiXiong Jian-GuoSciendoarticlealethic acqdistributed morphologyloweringraisingchinesesoutheast asian languagesChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 37, Iss 2, Pp 75-108 (2016)
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spellingShingle	alethic acq distributed morphology lowering raising chinese southeast asian languages Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208 Cheng Gong Yi Zhao-Hui Xiong Jian-Guo Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages
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.
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author	Cheng Gong Yi Zhao-Hui Xiong Jian-Guo
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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
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Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages

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