Final particles in Asia: Establishing an areal feature

This paper presents the results of an areal study of the elements known as (FPs) in the languages of Asia. FPs constitute a crucial part of many languages of the region and are reported in language-particular descriptions under various labels. However, they have not been the subject of large-scale a...

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Published inLinguistic typology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 13 - 70
Main Author Panov, Vladimir
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin De Gruyter 01.05.2020
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects
allocutivity
Areal linguistics
Asian languages
East Asia
epistemic modality
Evidentiality
Final particles
Function words
illocutionary force
Isoglosses
linguistic areas
Morphosyntax
Northeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Asia
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ISSN1430-0532
1613-415X
DOI10.1515/lingty-2019-2032

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Summary:This paper presents the results of an areal study of the elements known as (FPs) in the languages of Asia. FPs constitute a crucial part of many languages of the region and are reported in language-particular descriptions under various labels. However, they have not been the subject of large-scale areal studies. In this paper, I discuss the morphosyntactic and functional properties typically exhibited by the FPs of Asian languages and the parameters of their variation. On the basis of a sample of 53 languages and 6 sample functional types of FPs, I explore the areal distribution of FPs of the Asian type. I demonstrate that different FP-isoglosses exhibit different geographical coverage, but the overlap of some of them allows us to speak of a structural phenomenon highly typical of a macroarea which includes East, Southeast, and Northeast Asia.
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ISSN:1430-0532
1613-415X
DOI:10.1515/lingty-2019-2032