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TOPIC AND LEFT PERIPHERY IN SHANGHAINESE / 上海话的话题与左边际

TOPIC AND LEFT PERIPHERY IN SHANGHAINESE / 上海话的话题与左边际

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TOPIC AND LEFT PERIPHERY IN SHANGHAINESE / 上海话的话题与左边际

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TOPIC AND LEFT PERIPHERY IN SHANGHAINESE / 上海话的话题与左边际

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Project on Linguistic Analysis

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Journal of Chinese linguistics, 2016-01, Vol.44 (1), p.29-59

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English

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This paper* aims to present a novel picture of the left periphery in Shanghainese with special reference to the position of topic. We find that, contrary to Xu 徐 & Liu's 刘 (2007) "major-vs.-sub-vs.-sub-sub-topic" distinction, all TopPs in Shanghainese land outside IP. The only landing site for pre-posed adverbs is Spec-TopP (rather than an independ...

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TOPIC AND LEFT PERIPHERY IN SHANGHAINESE / 上海话的话题与左边际

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_24774960

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0091-3723

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