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Gao, Na; Zhou, Peng; Thornton, Rosalind; Crain, Stephen – First Language, 2021
It has long been noted that verb phrase (VP) ellipsis cancels the polarity sensitivity of the English Positive Polarity Items (PPIs). In recent work, it has been proposed that words for disjunction are governed by a parameter. On one value of the parameter, disjunction is a PPI for adult speakers of many languages including Mandarin Chinese. On…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Sentence Structure, Age Differences