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Q-particles and islands in Sinhala wh- and polar questions
Acta Linguistica Academica ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 , DOI: 10.1556/2062.2022.00470
Maribel Romero 1 , Erlinde Meertens 2
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Abstract This paper is concerned with the Q-particle də in Sinhala wh-questions and polar questions. Previous approaches propose a two-legged semantic dependency: (i) the lower leg projects a set of alternatives and (ii) the upper leg forms a choice function dependency. The contribution of the present paper is two-fold. First, it presents novel empirical data on complex questions with islands that pose a serious problem for this architecture when applied to polar questions. Second, it develops a new proposal that maintains a common meaning for the Q-particle in the two question types while avoiding this empirical problem. The key insight of the new analysis is to liberalize the upper dependency leg as to pass up a focus value that can later combine with different operators: with the Q-operator in wh-questions and with the squiggle operator in polar questions.

中文翻译:

僧伽罗语中的 Q 粒子和岛屿 wh 和极地问题

摘要 本文关注僧伽罗语 wh 问题和极地问题中的 Q 粒子 də。以前的方法提出了一种两腿语义依赖:(i)小腿投射一组备选方案,(ii)大腿形成选择函数依赖。本文的贡献是双重的。首先,它提供了关于岛屿复杂问题的新经验数据,这些问题在应用于极地问题时对该架构构成严重问题。其次,它提出了一个新的提议,该提议在两种问题类型中保持 Q 粒子的共同含义,同时避免了这个经验问题。新分析的关键见解是放开上依赖腿,以传递一个稍后可以与不同运算符组合的焦点值:
更新日期:2022-03-21
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