Representing discourse in clausal syntax : the ki particle in Pharasiot Greek
| Autor: | Bagriacik, Metin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS |
| ISSN: | 1566-5844 1569-9846 |
| Popis: | In Pharasiot Greek, an Asia Minor Greek dialect, a certain particle copied from Turkish, ki, is employed in a number of seemingly unrelated constructions. Close scrutiny, however, reveals that in each of these constructions, ki is employed as a device geared to influencing the interlocutor’s epistemic vigilance. Based on the Cartographic Approach which defends the syntactization of the interpretive domains, I propose that this unique semantics of ki should be represented in the clause structure. Following recent work which advocates the existence of a pragmatic field – Speech Act Phrase (SAP) in particular – above the CP-layer, where discourse and pragmatic roles are mapped onto syntax, I propose that ki is the overt exponent of SA0 and is endowed with [+sentience] feature indexing the speaker as the sentient mind. The apparent differences between various construction types which involve ki – hence, in which SAP projects – then reduce to whether the [+sentience] feature on SA0 is checked by an internally or externally merging category in Spec, SAP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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