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- Title
Where do polar question markers come from?
- Authors
Metslang, Helle; Habicht, KÜlli; Pajusalu, Karl
- Abstract
On the basis of present and past developments concerning polar question markers in Estonian and other languages in the Circum-Baltic area, the main sources of interrogative markers are presented: (1) coordination markers: disjunctive, conjunctive and adversative coordination; (2) subordination markers, the source of which is the subordinating conjunction in the case of insubordination of the subordinate clause; (3) epistemic markers, which arise from particles expressing epistemic modality; (4) pronominal markers, which arise from interrogative pronouns and proadverbs in tag questions. Question particles have developed from these same sources in many other languages as well. Typical of the Circum-Baltic languages are disjunctive and conjunctive particles located on the sentence periphery.
- Subjects
ESTONIAN language; LANGUAGE &; languages; LINGUISTICS; GRAMMATICALIZATION; SENTENCES (Grammar)
- Publication
STUF: Language Typology & Universals, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 3, p489
- ISSN
1867-8319
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/stuf-2017-0022