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Peer reviewedSimpson, Andrew – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2001
Provides an account of a distributional patterning found with certain modal verbs in a number of SVO languages of Southeast Asia, the occurrence of a particular alethic modal in predicate-final position. Describes the paradigm and how it's arguably the result of borrowing and transfer among the various languages. Its relevance for Cinque's defence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistic Theory
