Head movement with semantic effects: Aspectual verb raising in Cantonese
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4510Keywords:
head movement, semantic effects, verb raising, Scope EconomyAbstract
This paper argues that head movement is an operation available in Narrow Syntax (contra Chomsky 2000, i.a.). It provides independent support to a line of research which suggests that head movement can impose interpretive effects. The novel evidence comes from Cantonese aspectual verbs and their interaction with other quantificational elements. I argue that aspectual verbs such as hoici 'begin' can undergo head movement, which can enrich the scope possibility of the verb.Downloads
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2019-08-16
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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Lee, Tommy Tsz-Ming. 2019. “Head Movement With Semantic Effects: Aspectual Verb Raising in Cantonese”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4 (1): 59:1–11. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4510.