Polar kya and the Prosody-Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

Type of Publication: Contribution to a conference
Publication status: Published
Author: Butt, Miriam; Bögel, Tina; Jabeen, Farhat
Year of publication: 2017
Conference: The 2017 Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar : LFG17, Jul 25, 2017 - Jul 27, 2017, Konstanz
Published in: Proceedings of the LFG'17 Conference / Butt, Miriam; King, Tracy Holloway (ed.). - Stanfort : CSLI Publications, 2017. - pp. 125-145. - ISSN 1098-6782
URL of original publication: http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2017/lfg2017-bbj.pdf, Last access on Apr 17, 2018
Summary:
This paper reports on part of a larger investigation of polar questions in Urdu/Hindi. Our overall study is concerned with how the interfaces between prosody, syntax, and semantics/pragmatics interact with respect to forming non-canonical readings for questions. In this paper, we focus on the prosodysyntax interface in particular and show how this is crucial for disambiguating between the polar and the wh-constituent uses of Urdu/Hindi kya ‘what’. We work with the architecture of the prosody-syntax interface developed by Bögel (2015) and show how prosodic information guides syntactic disambiguation, which in turn results in the activation of the appropriate semantic information (polar vs. wh-constituent readings).
Subject (DDC): 400 Philology, Linguistics
Keywords: interrogatives, prosody-syntax interface, Urdu, polar interrogatives
Bibliography of Konstanz: Yes

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BUTT, Miriam, Tina BÖGEL, Farhat JABEEN, 2017. Polar kya and the Prosody-Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. The 2017 Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar : LFG17. Konstanz, Jul 25, 2017 - Jul 27, 2017. In: BUTT, Miriam, ed., Tracy Holloway KING, ed.. Proceedings of the LFG'17 Conference. Stanfort:CSLI Publications, pp. 125-145. ISSN 1098-6782

@inproceedings{Butt2017Polar-42065, title={Polar kya and the Prosody-Syntax-Pragmatics Interface}, url={http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2017/lfg2017-bbj.pdf}, year={2017}, issn={1098-6782}, address={Stanfort}, publisher={CSLI Publications}, booktitle={Proceedings of the LFG'17 Conference}, pages={125--145}, editor={Butt, Miriam and King, Tracy Holloway}, author={Butt, Miriam and Bögel, Tina and Jabeen, Farhat} }

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