Putting our heads together: towards a syntax of particles

Biberauer, Theresa; Haegeman, Liliane; Kemenade, Ans van

doi:10.1111/stul.12021

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“…It is until recently that researchers of Arabic have become interested in the syntactic properties of particles based on a Minimalist approach [1] and [2]. The syntactic properties of particles have become the interest of recent researches including [3], [13], [20] and [21].…”

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The Derivation of Vocative Exclamatives with the Particle ʔaya in Gulf Arabic

Alkuwaihes¹

2017

IJLL

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Abstract:Research into vocative exclamatives (VocEs) is based on the traditional grammar of Standard Arabic (SA) which considers the structure of VocEs to be like that of vocatives due to the use of the vocative particle yā. The problem with this traditional view lies in the fact that it only accounts for VocEs in terms of their similarity to vocatives, and identifies only one type of VocEs with the particle yā that exists in SA. However, other types of VocEs, their underlying structure and derivation have not been given much attention. Therefore, this paper examines the syntactic structure and the derivation of vocative exclamatives in Gulf Arabic with the particle ʔaya which does not exist in SA. It provides an analysis of the data within the Minimalist Framework and sheds light on the main differences between their structure and that of vocatives in terms of definiteness and projection.

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Section: Particlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Derivation of Vocative Exclamatives with the Particle ʔaya in Gulf Arabic

Alkuwaihes¹

2017

IJLL

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“…It is commonplace that such a property has the consequence that discourse particles are an unclear notion in syntax, (Zwicky, 1985), from which their pragmatic functions can be read off. Recently, a huge bulk of research in linguistic theory highlights that C-particles, in fact, interact with the other systems of grammar-pragmatics, semantics and syntax; hence, triggering syntactic analysis to determine their positions (Biberauer et al, 2014). For instance, it has been posited that C-particles fall outside of the sentential boundary of the clause, and so, they do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance, being mainly related to the speaker-attitude (Hirschberg & Litman, 1993;Stede & Schmitz, 2000;Aikhenvald, 2004).…”

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“…For instance, it has been posited that C-particles fall outside of the sentential boundary of the clause, and so, they do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance, being mainly related to the speaker-attitude (Hirschberg & Litman, 1993;Stede & Schmitz, 2000;Aikhenvald, 2004). Such pragmatic-related properties have motivated many linguist to investigate the positions C-particles occupy in the syntactic structure, adopting modern generative syntactic approaches, mainly Rizzi' (1997) Split CP Hypothesis (Biberauer et al, 2014;Hack, 2014;Struckmeier, 2014). For instance, in the modern generative literature, regarding their positions, it has been proposed that C-particles, having a discourse featural make-up, head articulated projections in the C-domain of the clause; that is, they are encoded in syntax and instantiate their own syntactic projections (Biberauer & Sheehan, 2011;Cruschina, 2009).…”

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“…By the same token, C-particles have been increasingly used as clues for underlying sentence structure and left periphery. Their position and syntactic behaviour with core sentential arguments (i.e., subject and object) have been increasingly utilized as a window for how sentences are structured as far as syntax is concerned (Zimmermann 2004, 2011, Haegeman & Hill 2013, and Biberauer et al 2014.…”

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Documentation of discourse-related Particles in North Hail Arabic

Alshamari¹

2015

ELR

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The current research investigates a range of discourse particles used in North Hail Arabic, a variety spoken in Saudi Arabia. It delves into their pragmatic functions related to discourse. Investigating 17 discourse particles, the current research argues that they are associated with specific discourse/pragmatics functions: speaker-positive, speaker-negative, evidentiality, and discourse coherence. Additionally, the current research introduces a general syntactic analysis for these particles, assuming that they are heads, associated with discourse features, have their own functional projections and are base-generated in the left periphery. It shows that these particles are different in terms of whether they are able to be resumed by a pronominal clitic or not. For this, the study attributes this behaviour to whether the given particle has a set of Φ-features (phi-features) or not. All in all, the current research is meant to bring these particles to the fore, suggesting them as a rich area for different linguistic domains (i.e., syntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc.).

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“…Modal particles are richly attested in Germanic, Slavic, and South East Asian languages (Bayer & Obenauer 2011;Biberauer, Haegeman & van Kemenade 2014). It is controversial whether modal particles are functionally and/or lexically articulated in Romance (Bayer, Hinterh€ olzl & Trotzke 2015).…”

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DP‐Internal Modal Particles: A Case Study of German JA

Trotzke

2016

Studia Linguistica

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In this paper, I investigate the DP-internal occurrence of the German modal particle ja. I first demonstrate what kind of attributive configurations seem to prefer the presence of the particle ja inside the DP domain. In this context, I focus on the occurrence of particles within simple-adjective configurations and examine the roles of restrictive and so-called extreme content. I demonstrate that the DP-internal occurrence of modal particles cannot be analyzed analogous to the occurrence of modal particles in other attributive constructions such as certain types of relative clauses. Given this demonstration, I sketch a fine-grained syntactic representation of DP-internal particles, and I point out parallels to the functional makeup of CPs. (Thurmair 1989:27) (1) a. dieser ja leider viel zu fr€ uh verstorbene this JA unfortunately much too soon departed Komponist composer

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Putting our heads together: towards a syntax of particles

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

The Derivation of Vocative Exclamatives with the Particle ʔaya in Gulf Arabic

The Derivation of Vocative Exclamatives with the Particle ʔaya in Gulf Arabic

Documentation of discourse-related Particles in North Hail Arabic

DP‐Internal Modal Particles: A Case Study of German JA

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