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Licensing of matrix questions in Japanese and its implications
In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 735–749 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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Why is L1 not easy to hear?
In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 59–73 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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The origin and architecture of existential indeterminates in Okinawan
In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 384–394 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
Abstract: In a number of languages, an indeterminate is combined with various particles to yield different indefinite pronouns. This has been called an indeterminate system (Kuroda 1965, Cheng 1991, Haspelmath 1997, Jayaseelan 2001). As Haspelmath (1997) and Jayaseelan (2001) observe, existential indeterminates are often built with disjunction markers. On the other hand, a disjunction particle and a question particle are often morphologically identical cross-linguistically (see Hagstrom 1998, Jayaseelan 2001). Thus, a question that I ask here is whether the alleged homophony between a disjunction marker and a marker that forms an existential quantifier is principled (Jayaseelan 2001, Szabolcsi et al. 2014) or coincidental (Haspelmath 1997, Cable 2010). In this paper, I argue that the observation about homophony is misguided and hence support Haspelmath’s hypothesis, based on the data obtained from my fieldwork on Okinawan, an endangered Ryukyuan language. I propose an analysis where existential indeterminates in Okinawan have a clausal structure of an embedded question and are derived by deletion.
Keyword: deletion; ellipsis; existential quantifiers; focus concord; free choice; indeterminates; Japanese; Okinawan; particles; Ryukyuan; Syntax
URL: http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4705
https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4705
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