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- Title
Quantifier particle environments.
- Authors
Slade, Benjamin
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
SOUTH Asia; INDIA; MORPHOSYNTAX; ECOLOGY; SUBCONTINENTS; JAPANESE language; TLINGIT language; ENGLISH language
- Publication
Linguistic Variation, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
2211-6834
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lv.17007.sla