Abstract:This paper aims to make a contribution to the study of the nature of syntactic categories by analysing a single
element in a single language, namely the marker -lao in Yixing Chinese. Although this marker has previously been
analysed as an adjectivaliser (Hu and Perry 2018), we show that it has a much broader
range of uses. We suggest that the bulk of cases can be captured in a unified way by supposing that the marker in question
displays a type of possessive semantics (which we label posse… Show more
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