Daniel Hole

Evidential raising in Mandarin Chinese

In this article, we develop the first syntax-and-semantics analysis of the evidential raising construction of Chinese as in [Akiu (haoxiang) xihuan he pijiu] de yangzi ‘Akiu seems to like drinking beer’ (not the DP reading that this string has, too: ‘the appearance of Akiu liking to drink beer’). PF reordering preposes...