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:EN
Published: Sciendo 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/cd93b7dc846a4f8bb5c74582590a770f
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