dc.contributor.author |
Manthodi, Sarath Chandran |
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dc.contributor.author |
Balusu, Rahul |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-12-05T08:39:49Z |
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dc.date.available |
2019-12-05T08:39:49Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-12-05 |
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dc.identifier.other |
1684684951 |
de_DE |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/95471 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-954713 |
de_DE |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-36854 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This paper provides an account for the properties of the polar question particle -aa in Malabar Malayalm, which is, in some crucial aspects, similar to its Hindi counterpart kyaa. Using instances of its occurrence in polar and alternative questions, and non-occurrence in wh- questions and declarative disjuncts, we discuss the unique manner in which -aa attaches only to clausal disjuncts and try to provide a semantic account for this pattern. Data from other major Dravidian languages have also been used for this purpose. We argue that -aa qualifies as a polar question particle since it resides in ForceP and has a presuppositional requirement of a singleton- set question as its complement. An additional supporting argument for this claim is that it exhibits all the diagnostic patterns of a root phenomenon. The second claim of the paper, that -oo in Malayalam is a polar question operator, is supported by the fact that it occurs only in polar and alternative questions. Like in more standard Hamblin semantics, we take the line that there is a distinction between the question operator that forms polar questions and the question operator that forms wh-questions, because the first takes a single proposition for its complement, whereas the second takes a set of propositions. |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
de_DE |
dc.publisher |
Universität Tübingen |
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dc.rights |
ubt-podok |
de_DE |
dc.rights.uri |
http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php?la=de |
de_DE |
dc.rights.uri |
http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php?la=en |
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dc.subject.classification |
Linguistik , Semantik , Malayalam |
de_DE |
dc.subject.ddc |
400 |
de_DE |
dc.subject.ddc |
490 |
de_DE |
dc.subject.other |
Linguistics |
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dc.subject.other |
Semantics |
en |
dc.subject.other |
Questions |
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dc.title |
Polar question particle -aa in Malabar Malayalam |
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dc.type |
ConferencePaper |
de_DE |
utue.publikation.fachbereich |
Allgemeine u. vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft |
de_DE |
utue.publikation.fakultaet |
9 Sonstige / Externe |
de_DE |
utue.opus.portal |
triplea5 |
de_DE |