The Distributions of the Aspect Markers Zhe and Le in the Chinese You-coda Constructions
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چکیده
According to Huang (1987), all Chinese existential sentences involve the string of “... (NP) ... V ... NP ... (XP) ...”. When the V position is occupied by the verb you, the XP is refered to as you-coda. It has been observed that although the aspect markers zhe and le may alternate in the locative inversion construction (LIC), the superficially identical V-le and V-zhe sequences cannot appear in the you-coda construction. Moreover, the you-coda construction with V-le is more unacceptable than those with V-zhe. We assume that the ungrammatical you-coda constructions with V-le involve the sentence-final le2 (or perhaps ‘le1 + le2’) being used in construction with the wrong choice of verbs. While, the marginality of the you-coda structure with V-zhe is due to zhe’s being incapable of anchoring tense of the CP complement of you.
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