"Wh"-phrases and "wh"-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese

In this paper I explore wh-phrases and wh-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Simplex and complex wh-phrases in LAC can be divided into eleven semantic categories. Since LAC is a wh-fronting language, wh-items undergo obligatory preposing, unless being subjects. Nonetheless, there are exceptions...

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Main Author: Aiqing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2021-09-01
Series:Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/12008