Quantifier particle environments
Abstract I examine the set of environments in which KA-type quantifier particles appear crosslinguistically. These environments include interrogatives, disjunctions, indefinites, all of which arguably involve elements with Hamblin-type ‘alternative’ semantic values. I show that if KA-particles are a...
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crjohnbenjaminsp:10.1075/lv.17007.sla 2024-06-23T07:57:11+00:00 Quantifier particle environments Slade, Benjamin 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.17007.sla http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/lv.17007.sla.pdf en eng John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistic Variation volume 19, issue 2, page 280-351 ISSN 2211-6834 2211-6842 journal-article 2019 crjohnbenjaminsp https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.17007.sla 2024-06-12T04:06:43Z Abstract I examine the set of environments in which KA-type quantifier particles appear crosslinguistically. These environments include interrogatives, disjunctions, indefinites, all of which arguably involve elements with Hamblin-type ‘alternative’ semantic values. I show that if KA-particles are assigned a uniform denotation as variables over choice functions we can account for their appearance in what otherwise appears to be a set of heterogeneous environments. Crosslinguistic and diachronic variation in the distribution of Q-particles – including, in some cases, the appearance of multiple morphologically-distinct Q-particles in different contexts – can be handled largely in terms of differing formal morphosyntactic features and/or pragmatic components of specific KA-particles. This study focuses on tracking the evolution of KA-type particles in the history of Sinhala, with comparison to other languages of the Indian subcontinent (including Malayalam and Tamil) as well as to Japanese, Tlingit, and English. Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit John Benjamins Publishing Company Indian Linguistic Variation 19 2 280 351 |
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Abstract I examine the set of environments in which KA-type quantifier particles appear crosslinguistically. These environments include interrogatives, disjunctions, indefinites, all of which arguably involve elements with Hamblin-type ‘alternative’ semantic values. I show that if KA-particles are assigned a uniform denotation as variables over choice functions we can account for their appearance in what otherwise appears to be a set of heterogeneous environments. Crosslinguistic and diachronic variation in the distribution of Q-particles – including, in some cases, the appearance of multiple morphologically-distinct Q-particles in different contexts – can be handled largely in terms of differing formal morphosyntactic features and/or pragmatic components of specific KA-particles. This study focuses on tracking the evolution of KA-type particles in the history of Sinhala, with comparison to other languages of the Indian subcontinent (including Malayalam and Tamil) as well as to Japanese, Tlingit, and English. |
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