A unified semantics for the Japanese Q-particle ka in indefinites, questions and disjunctions
This paper provides a compositional semantics for the Japanese Q-particle 'ka 'that properly accounts for its use in questions, indefinites and disjunctions in a unified fashion. Adopting the two-tier alternative semantics (Rooth 1985; Beck 2006), I will propose that the role of the '...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/238 |