Quantifier particle environments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4567814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Slade (University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 280-351 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Variation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lv.17007.sla |
| OpenAlex | W2961949775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 44 |
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
Astrophysics · Linguistics · Malayalam · Physics · Tamil · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence · Geology · Paleontology
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South Asian Languages
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |