Subject/non-subject movement asymmetries in Late Archaic Chinese
This paper accounts for the inability of a non-subject DP to move over the subject in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC) by proposing that DP movement could only be licensed by checking a case feature. Consequently, movement into the C/TP layer was generally only possible for the subject. An object could be...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/743 |