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

  • 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.

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Author:Kerstin SchwabeGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-97668
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912111.385
ISBN:978-3-11-091211-1
Parent Title (English):The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery
Series (Serial Number):Interface Explorations (9)
Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton
Place of publication:Berlin [u.a.]
Editor:Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2004
Date of Publication (online):2020/04/17
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Reviewstate:(Verlags)-Lektorat
GND Keyword:Entscheidungsfrage; Interrogativsatz; Linksverzweigende Konstruktion; Partikel; Slawische Sprachen
First Page:385
Last Page:430
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
BDSL-Classification:Grammatik
Linguistics-Classification:Semantik
Linguistics-Classification:Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt