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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages
Author(s) -
Sybesma Rint
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/synt.12211
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , word order , linguistics , word (group theory) , order (exchange) , computer science , speech recognition , object (grammar) , natural language processing , philosophy , business , physics , finance , astrophysics
This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes split and sometimes bundled, even within one language, and, second, that Voice does not always select vP; it can also select VP.