Abstract
Le 2 has special features in both syntax and semantics, and should not be put on an equal footing with le 1 . Based on the framework of split CP hypothesis, this paper discusses the syntactic status of le 2 . It finds that le 2 is a Fin element, located outside the clause to mark the overall state of the clause. For this reason, its occurrence will not be affected by the existence of the negative marker in a clause (while le 1 will be affected).
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Zhang, P., Li, J., Liang, R., Fu, Y., Zhuang, H. (2018). On le 2: Its Nature and Syntactic Status. In: Wu, Y., Hong, JF., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_1
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