The particle li and the left periphery of Slavic yes/no interrogatives

Buchbeitrag

This paper focuses on the interaction of interrogativity and information structure in Slavic polarity questions where the clitic li may indicate interrogativity as well as focusation. We will see how the semantic category sentence force as well as the pragmatically induced information structuring are anchored syntactically and represented semantically. Even though we will introduce two notions of li for methodological reasons, there is only one li in each language. Within the framework of Rizzi's (1997) theory of the split C-Domain, we will see that li only occurs in Force[0] in Russian and Serbian/Croatian indicating that li is some kind of complementizer. In Bulgarian and Macedonian, on the other hand, li is generated more or less 'independently' from Force[0], but forces the constituent it is adjoined to to move up to FocP. We will further show that Rizzi's theory also accounts for the compositional derivation of meaning of yes/no-interrogatives with information or identificational focus.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Partikel ; Slawische Sprachen ; Linksverzweigende Konstruktion ; Interrogativsatz ; Entscheidungsfrage ; Sprache

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schwabe, Kerstin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter Mouton
• (wann): 2020-04-17

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-97668
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 06.03.2025, 09:00 MEZ