(No) variation in the grammar of alternatives
| Autor: | Vera Hohaus, Anna Howell, Polina Berezovskaya, Sigrid Beck, Şehriban Durmaz, Julia Braun, Konstantin Sachs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Interrogative word Grammar Turkish media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Semitic languages Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Variation (linguistics) Operator (computer programming) language Samoan 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Slavic languages 0305 other medical science Food Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Linguistic Variation. 22:1-77 |
| ISSN: | 2211-6842 2211-6834 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/lv.19010.how |
| Popis: | The paper reports the results of an in-depth crosslinguistic study of intervention effects and the grammar of alternatives in a typologically diverse sample of five languages: Palestinian Arabic (Afro-Asiatic, Semitic), Russian (Indo-European, Slavic), Samoan (Austronesian, Oceanic), Turkish (Altaic, Turkic), and Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Defoid). In all of these languages, we find an interesting asymmetry in that focus evaluation interrupts question evaluation and causes an intervention effect, but not vice versa. We take our data to inform the crosslinguistic analysis of two alternative-evaluating operators, the squiggle operator and the question operator. To capture the observed absence of variation, we propose two semantic universals: The squiggle operator unselectively evaluates all alternatives in its scope. The question operator, on the other hand, is selective. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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