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February 21, 2026Journal of East Asian LinguisticsOpen Access

On hyper-raising in Mandarin Chinese

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CCC.-T. Tim Chou

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Investigates hyper-raising mechanisms in Mandarin Chinese, suggesting new insights into linguistic structure.

Key Points

  • This research explores the nature of hyper-raising in Mandarin Chinese and its implications for linguistic theory.
  • Analyzed phrasal displacement in Mandarin's raising modal constructions.
  • Utilized diagnostic tests including wh-questions compatibility.
  • Studied interactions of various theoretical hypotheses including anti-locality and phase impenetrability.
  • Demonstrated that subject raising exemplifies hyper-raising while object raising involves topicalization.
  • Proposed that hyper-raising arises from two key linguistic principles.
  • Showed that the anti-locality constraint explains the Ā-opacity effect in Mandarin.

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C.-T. Tim Chou (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69994c5d873532290d020d2ahttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-025-09317-0
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