A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective
@inproceedings{Hlzl2018ATO,
title={A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective},
author={Andreas H{\"o}lzl},
year={2018}
}This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the Yenisei. In particular, it analyzes what is called the grammar of questions (GQ), i.e., those aspects of any given language that are specialized for asking questions or regularly combine with these. The bulk of the study is a bottom-up description and comparison of GQs in the languages of NEA. The addition of the…
Figures and Tables from this paper
table 1.1 
figure 1.1 
table 2.1 
table 3.1 
table 3.2 
table 3.3 
table 3.4 
table 4.1 
figure 4.1 
table 4.10 
table 4.11 
table 4.12 
table 4.13 
table 4.14 
table 4.2 
figure 4.2 
table 4.3 
figure 4.3 
table 4.4 
figure 4.4 
table 4.5 
table 4.6 
table 4.7 
table 4.8 
table 4.9 
table 5.1 
figure 5.1 
table 5.10 
table 5.100 
table 5.101 
table 5.102 
table 5.103 
table 5.104 
table 5.105 
table 5.106 
table 5.107 
table 5.108 
table 5.109 
table 5.11 
table 5.110 
table 5.111 
table 5.112 
table 5.113 
table 5.114 
table 5.115 
table 5.116 
table 5.117 
table 5.118 
table 5.119 
table 5.12 
table 5.120 
table 5.121 
table 5.122 
table 5.123 
table 5.124 
table 5.125 
table 5.126 
table 5.127 
table 5.128 
table 5.129 
table 5.13 
table 5.130 
table 5.131 
table 5.132 
table 5.133 
table 5.134 
table 5.135 
table 5.136 
table 5.137 
table 5.138 
table 5.139 
table 5.14 
table 5.140 
table 5.141 
table 5.142 
table 5.143 
table 5.144 
table 5.145 
table 5.146 
table 5.147 
table 5.148 
table 5.149 
table 5.15 
table 5.150 
table 5.151 
table 5.152 
table 5.153 
table 5.154 
table 5.155 
table 5.156 
table 5.157 
table 5.158 
table 5.159 
table 5.16 
table 5.160 
table 5.161 
table 5.162 
table 5.163 
table 5.164 
table 5.165 
table 5.166 
table 5.167 
table 5.168 
table 5.169 
table 5.17 
table 5.170 
table 5.171 
table 5.172 
table 5.18 
table 5.19 
table 5.2 
figure 5.2 
table 5.20 
table 5.21 
table 5.22 
table 5.23 
table 5.24 
table 5.25 
table 5.26 
table 5.27 
table 5.28 
table 5.29 
table 5.3 
table 5.30 
table 5.31 
table 5.32 
table 5.33 
table 5.34 
table 5.35 
table 5.36 
table 5.37 
table 5.38 
table 5.39 
table 5.4 
table 5.40 
figure 5.4 
table 5.41 
table 5.42 
table 5.43 
table 5.44 
table 5.45 
table 5.46 
table 5.47 
table 5.48 
table 5.49 
table 5.5 
table 5.50 
figure 5.5 
table 5.51 
table 5.52 
table 5.53 
table 5.54 
table 5.55 
table 5.56 
table 5.57 
table 5.58 
table 5.59 
table 5.6 
table 5.60 
figure 5.6 
table 5.61 
table 5.62 
table 5.63 
table 5.64 
table 5.65 
table 5.66 
table 5.67 
table 5.68 
table 5.69 
table 5.7 
table 5.70 
figure 5.7 
table 5.71 
table 5.72 
table 5.73 
table 5.74 
table 5.75 
table 5.76 
table 5.78 
table 5.8 
table 5.81 
table 5.82 
table 5.83 
table 5.84 
table 5.85 
table 5.86 
table 5.87 
table 5.88 
table 5.89 
table 5.9 
table 5.90 
table 5.91 
table 5.92 
table 5.93 
table 5.94 
table 5.95 
table 5.96 
table 5.97 
table 5.98 
table 5.99 
table 6.1 
figure 6.1 
table 6.10 
figure 6.10 
table 6.11 
figure 6.11 
table 6.12 
figure 6.12 
table 6.13 
figure 6.13 
table 6.14 
figure 6.14 
table 6.15 
figure 6.15 
table 6.16 
figure 6.16 
table 6.17 
table 6.2 
figure 6.2 
table 6.3 
figure 6.3 
table 6.4 
figure 6.4 
table 6.5 
figure 6.5 
table 6.6 
figure 6.6 
table 6.7 
figure 6.7 
table 6.8 
figure 6.8 
table 6.9 
figure 6.9
7 Citations
Final particles in Asia: Establishing an areal feature
- Linguistics
- 2020
Abstract This paper presents the results of an areal study of the elements known as (sentence-)final particles (FPs) in the languages of Asia. FPs constitute a crucial part of many languages of the…
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages
- Linguistics
- 2019
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including…
Morphological marking of constituent questions: A case for nonlocal amalgamation
- LinguisticsProceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- 2021
This paper considers the role of nonlocal amalgamation in a system of analyses for typologically diverse languages. Nonlocal amalgamation (Bouma et al. 2001) was suggested in particular to get rid…
The complexification of Tungusic interrogative systems
- Linguistics
- 2021
The present study discusses the nature and development of a Tungusic phoneme *Kthat has proven difficult to reconstruct. It is only fully preserved in one subbranch of the Tungusic language family…
On a dichotomy of question types: the case of Mandarin Chinese and Changsha Xiang
- LinguisticsThe Linguistic Review
- 2022
Abstract Contrary to the conventional three-way distinction of questions: polar questions, disjunctive questions, and wh-questions, we argue for a more revealing two-way distinction of polar versus…
Syntax in morphological guise: Interrogative verbal morphology in Abaza
- Linguistics
- 2020
Abstract Abaza, a polysynthetic ergative Northwest Caucasian language, possesses a typologically unique system of forming content questions by means of inflectional marking in the verb. I offer a…
Linguistic Typology
- 2020
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 695 REFERENCES
Interrogative Strategies: An areal typology of the languages of China
- Linguistics
- 2016
This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China. The syntactic, morphological, and lexical forms for distinguishing interrogatives take centre stage; intonation is also dealt…
A Syntax of the Nivkh Language: The Amur Dialect
- Linguistics
- 2013
This volume is a descriptive grammar based on extensive language data and supplemented with the authors’ experiments and subtle analysis, aimed at elucidating some moot points of the highly specific Nivkh syntax, and with quantitave data.
On the Formation of Questions in Ẹdo
- Linguistics
- 1988
Linguists commonly classify questions into the categories Yes/No and WH. These labels are based on the kind of response in the case of the former, and on the spelling of many English question words…
A grammar of Chukchi
- Linguistics
- 1999
The aim of this work is to produce the first fieldwork-based, typologically Informed
reference grammar of Chukchi, an Indigenous language of the north-eastern corner
of the Russian Federation. The…
Aspects of the grammar of Tundra Yukaghir
- Linguistics
- 2013
An attempt at a grammatical description of Tundra Yukaghir (TY), based on a variety of primary data including those collected by the author during three field trips from 2009 till 2012, successively presents TY phonology, morphology, syntax and the organization of information structure.
An Introduction to Linguistic Typology
- Linguistics
- 2012
This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses,…
Origins of Linguistic Diversity in the Aleutian Islands
- LinguisticsHuman biology
- 2010
There is evidence of possible Aleut contact with both neighboring peoples; however, much of this evidence has not yet been subjected to systematic comparative reconstructions, and linguistic evidence supports theories of at least two westward expansions of Aleuts along the island chain, but it is not yet clear what motivated the dialect differentiations.
Linguistic diversity and national borders of Tungusic
- Linguistics
- 1997
The Tungusic family comprises ten distinguishable languages, each of which can be subdivised into several dialects. All these languages and dialects are distributed in Russia and China, with the…
A typology of negation in Tungusic
- Linguistics
- 2015
Negation seems to be a universal linguistic category, yet languages differ vastly in how they express it. Tungusic languages show several interesting and typologically rare phenomena. The paper…
Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary
- Linguistics
- 1994
This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan ('Paleosiberian') family. Reconstructions for both the proto-Chukotian and…