#3647. Plural events and the progressive particle in Dalad Chinese, and the final-over-final condition

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This paper examines a special progressive marker, which can appear either in the postverbal position or in the post VP position, corresponding to cumulative reading and collective reading respectively. We argue that is an acategorial particle that lacks formal feature, only bearing a semantic feature denoting progressive aspectual information. When the event structure involves only a single event, is adjoined to vP, and is placed in the vP final position due to its acategorial status: not being a head in the extended projection, it has to be placed in the final position in order to be consistent with head-initiality. This analysis explains the correlation between the postverbal position of and the cumulative reading, and is extended to the account of other issues such as the quantity restriction on the object and the exclusion of the negator in the V construction.
Keywords:
Acategorial particle; Functional structure of plural events; Progressive particle

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