INVESTIGATING THE SYNTAX OF POSTVERBAL MODALS IN HAKKA
This paper presents a syntactic account for the odd distribution of the postverbal modal element, tet, in Sixian Hakka, an SVO language in which a modal auxiliary precedes the main verb. Inspired by the cartographic approach (Cinque 1999, Rizzi 1997), I propose that the modal element tet patterns wi...
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| Language: | English |
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Crane Publishing Co
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Taiwan Journal of Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume10-1/volume10-1/10.1-2.pdf |
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