Cartography and the stackability of Mandarin modals

Jackie Yan-Ki Lai; Xiaoli Sun

doi:10.1017/S0022226725100935

Cartography and the stackability of Mandarin modals

Jackie Yan-Ki Lai, Xiaoli Sun^*

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Department of Linguistics and Translation

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An open question about cartography is whether one and the same functional head may iterate on the functional hierarchy. We demonstrate that the stackability of certain modals from the same semantic class in Mandarin offers clear evidence for such a possibility. © The Author(s), 2025.

Original language	English
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Linguistics
Online published	1 Oct 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226725100935
Publication status	Online published - 1 Oct 2025

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cartography
clause structure
functional projections
Mandarin
modals

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