Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of East Asian Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-02 DOI:10.1007/s10831-023-09266-6

Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee

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The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation (RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages with regard to the information structural status of the right dislocated elements. The discussion focuses on Alasha, a Mongolic language spoken in Mongolia. Through a comparative perspective on right dislocation, I show that RD languages come in two types: one that allows focused elements to be right dislocated, and one that disallows focused elements to be right dislocated. I argue that Alasha belongs to the former type, and I propose a bi-clausal analysis of Alasha RD, where Focus movement may occur in the second clause. Drawing on these findings, I further argue that the variation in RD is due to the parametric difference on the licensing condition of Focus Projection in Asian languages. Ultimately, the findings of this paper strengthen a non-uniform approach to RD in natural languages in both syntactic structure and information structure, despite their surface similarities.

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最后:阿拉沙蒙古族右位错的比较研究

本文的主要目的是了解右位错(RD)的信息结构。我报告了亚洲语言中关于右错位元素的信息结构状态的RD的变化。讨论的重点是阿拉沙语，一种在蒙古使用的蒙古语。通过对右错位的比较，我展示了RD语言有两种类型:一种允许焦点元素被右错位，另一种不允许焦点元素被右错位。笔者认为Alasha属于前一种类型，并提出了Alasha RD的双子句分析，其中焦点移动可能发生在第二个子句中。基于这些发现，笔者进一步认为，RD的变化是由于亚洲语言中焦点投射许可条件的参数差异。最后，本文的研究结果加强了自然语言在句法结构和信息结构上的非统一方法，尽管它们表面上相似。

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Journal of East Asian Linguistics Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The study of East Asian languages, especially of Chinese, Japanese and Korean, has existed for a long time as a field, as demonstrated by the existence of programs in most institutions of higher learning and research that include these languages as a major component. Speakers of these three languages have shared a great deal of linguistic heritage during the development of their languages through cultural contacts, in addition to possible genealogical linkage. These languages accordingly possess various common features. Another important factor that ties them together as a field is that they have shared a common tradition of linguistic scholarship, a tradition that distinguishes itself from the study of western languages. Against this tradition, much recent work has approached these languages from a broader perspective beyond the area, considering them within contexts of general theoretical research, bringing new lights to old problems in the area and contributing to current issues in linguistic theory. But there continues to be good reason for scholars working in this approach to hold a special interest in each other''s work. Especially with the amount of most recent theoretical work on these languages, the field of theoretical East Asian linguistics has been fast growing. The purpose of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics is to provide a common forum for such scholarly activities, and to foster further growth that will allow the field to benefit more from linguistic theory of today, and enable the languages to play a more important role in shaping linguistic theory of tomorrow.

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