A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles
The present paper discusses two sets of so-called particles in the Balkan languages, arguing that the correspondences attested in the E-languages reveal abstract properties at the level of the I-language. The first set involves modal particles which participate in the analytic expressions of the “fu...
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| description | The present paper discusses two sets of so-called particles in the Balkan languages, arguing that the correspondences attested in the E-languages reveal abstract properties at the level of the I-language. The first set involves modal particles which participate in the analytic expressions of the “future” and the “subjunctive”. Future markers are construed as V-related elements externalizing a scope position of the verb, while the subjunctive markers take their features from the nominal set. The second set of data involves the discourse marker “haide” which is argued to externalize features associated with the force of the sentence and its anchoring to the discourse participants. In the case of modal particles, the languages under consideration retain their own lexica, while in the case of the discourse marker, they share the same lexical item (lexical borrowing). Analysis of these phenomena supports an articulated left periphery which also accounts for the similar distribution of the discourse marker “haide”. At the same time, the different externalizations leave room for further microparametric variation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0edc74088f04f87bce754906f7c17892023-11-21T15:44:43ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2021-04-01627510.3390/languages6020075A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse ParticlesAnna Roussou0Department of Philology, University of Patras, 26504 Rion Patras, GreeceThe present paper discusses two sets of so-called particles in the Balkan languages, arguing that the correspondences attested in the E-languages reveal abstract properties at the level of the I-language. The first set involves modal particles which participate in the analytic expressions of the “future” and the “subjunctive”. Future markers are construed as V-related elements externalizing a scope position of the verb, while the subjunctive markers take their features from the nominal set. The second set of data involves the discourse marker “haide” which is argued to externalize features associated with the force of the sentence and its anchoring to the discourse participants. In the case of modal particles, the languages under consideration retain their own lexica, while in the case of the discourse marker, they share the same lexical item (lexical borrowing). Analysis of these phenomena supports an articulated left periphery which also accounts for the similar distribution of the discourse marker “haide”. At the same time, the different externalizations leave room for further microparametric variation.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/2/75externalizationdiscoursefutureI-languagelexical borrowingmicrovariation |
| spellingShingle | Anna Roussou A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles Languages externalization discourse future I-language lexical borrowing microvariation |
| title | A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles |
| title_full | A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles |
| title_fullStr | A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles |
| title_short | A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles |
| title_sort | balkan view on the left periphery modal and discourse particles |
| topic | externalization discourse future I-language lexical borrowing microvariation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/2/75 |
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