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 |
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Language: | EN |
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2016
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/cd93b7dc846a4f8bb5c74582590a770f |
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