Description

• Title:
  Sentence-final particles in multiple phases? Some evidence from language contact
• Creator:
  Chan, Tsan Tsai
• Description:
  Cinque’s (1999) cartographic theory associates one meaning with one functional head. As such, if applied to sentence-final particles (SFPs), cartographic assumptions ought to group semantically similar SFPs onto the same functional head cross-linguistically (cf. Pan 2019; Sybesma & Li 2007). However, I show that aspectual and restrictive focus SFPs in Cantonese and Mandarin (Sinitic, Sino-Tibetan) seemingly contradict Cinque by occupying different structural positions despite their semantic closeness. To shed light on the problem, I adduce novel data from Guangzhou Cantonese and Singapore Cantonese, demonstrating that SFPs borrowed into these varieties are treated differently according to their structural height. Likewise citing scopal and other facts, I ultimately make a case for placing SFPs in multiple phases (Chomsky 2000 etc.), following Erlewine (2017) and Biberauer (2017), but contra Pan (2019), a.o. To accommodate Cinque (1999), I ultimately submit that different-phase SFPs constitute distinct lexical classes, which each cluster separately, but in the same semantically determined sequence compatible with cartographic assumptions.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Tsan Tsai Chan
• Date:
  2021.09.25
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed article
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021); 1-41;
  Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting; Tom 7 Nr 1 (2021); 1-41;
  2449-7525
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/yplm/article/view/29434/30632
• Subject:
  sentence-final particles;
  cartography;
  Phase Theory;
  language contact;
  Cantonese
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/yplm/article/view/29434
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other