Prosody and Quantifier Float in Japanese
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1. Introduction There are two divergent views on the proper analysis of Q(uantifier)-float. On one hand, the adverbial position of floated quantifiers (FQs) indicates that they are ver-Q-float in Thai is no exception. Adverbs occur at the right edge of the VP, and this is where we find FQs in Thai as well, as (1b) shows.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2164-2818,2164-2834
DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2013.31011