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Existential indefinite constructions, in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia
Journal of Linguistics ( IF 1.381 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 , DOI: 10.1017/s0022226722000196
JOHAN VAN DER AUWERA, QUAN NGUYEN HAI, VIPAS POTHIPATH, STEFANIE SIEBENHÜTTER

In some languages assertions about ‘somebody’ or ‘nobody’ are existential in a strong sense, i.e. they need or prominently allow an explicit syntactic marker of existence (‘there is’, ‘exist’). This paper presents a state-of-the-art typology of existential indefinite constructions and finds the typological understanding to be inconclusive in many respects. The paper responds to this inconclusiveness with a study of the existential indefinite constructions in four mainland Southeast Asian languages, namely Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and Khmer. These are languages in which existential indefinite constructions take pride of place, although the typological literature has not acknowledged this. The paper then sketches the implications of the study of the aforementioned languages for typology.



中文翻译:

在世界和东南亚大陆存在的不定结构

在某些语言中,关于“somebody”或“nobody”的断言在强烈的意义上是存在的,即它们需要或显着地允许存在的明确句法标记(“there is”、“exist”)。本文提出了一种最先进的存在不定结构类型学,并发现类型学的理解在许多方面尚无定论。本文通过研究四种东南亚大陆语言(即泰语、老挝语、越南语和高棉语)的存在不定结构来回应这种不确定性。在这些语言中,存在的不定结构占据了主导地位,尽管类型学文献没有承认这一点。然后,本文概述了研究上述语言对类型学的影响。

更新日期:2022-05-13
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