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I. Hsieh

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Sep 2026

Embedded reciprocal equatives in Mandarin and semantic weakening

In this paper I present a novel observation on reciprocal equatives (henceforth, RE) in Mandarin: a reciprocal equative, when embedded under a necessity modal or a predicate of desire, gives rise to an unexpected, at-least-equal-to interpretation (henceforth, ≥-interpretation). I show that the meaning of a modal...

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