Focus enclitics in Bodo

Bibliographic Data

ID21557557
AuthorsKrishna Boro (0000-0003-3578-6237, Gauhati University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume44
Issue1
Pages75-112
Publication date2021-05-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0731-3500 • E-ISSN: 2214-5907
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ltba.19005.bor
OpenAlexW3127933206
LanguageEN
References cited19

This paper describes a set of five focus enclitics in Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Assam, India. The focus enclitics are phonologically bound morphemes which are attached to a phrase-level constituent of a sentence, such as the verb, its arguments, or its adjuncts. They all trigger existential presuppositions and express various kinds of semantic and pragmatic relations between the asserted proposition and presuppositions, such as inclusion, exclusion, contrast, concession, and correction. The description of these relations as well as other more context and construction specific functions encoded by the focus enclitics constitutes the core of this paper. This paper also examines the distribution of the focus enclitics and discusses their associated scope and interpretations. Finally, this paper investigates co-occurrence, co-occurrence restrictions, and interpretations of sequences of the enclitics

Epistemology · Existentialism · Linguistics · Morpheme · Phrase · Presupposition · Proposition · Sentence · Sociology · Verb · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation