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- Title
THE LEFT-PERIPHERAL NATURE OF THE RIGHT-EDGE PARTICLE KHÔNG IN VIETNAMESE.
- Authors
Liao, Y.-L. Irene; Lin, T.-H. Jonah
- Abstract
This work provides a syntactic account of VP-không questions in Vietnamese. We begin by pointing out potential problems in Duffield's (2013a) predicate-raising analysis to VP-không questions. First, it is unclear why raising the predicate to the left of the negator không could turn a declarative into a question. Second, Duffield's analysis cannot account for the occurrence of TP-level adverbs between the subject and the predicate. Third, contrary to a claim in Duffield's analysis, the topic marker thi is actually compatible with VP-không questions. To deal with these problems, we argue for an alternative analysis which involves Neg-to-C movement and the raising of a remnant TP.
- Subjects
VIETNAMESE language
- Publication
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
1729-4649
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6519/TJL.202401_22(1).0005