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<div style="direction: ltr;">Dear Tianhua,</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I have worked on this specific topic from a typological and from a diachronic perspective and found a number of languages having different 'ors' depending on the interrogative vs. declarative context. </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">You may find the typological findings in:</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">- Mauri, C. (2008) <i>Coordination relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond.</i> Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter (especially chapter 5 on disjunction). </div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">- Mauri, C. (2008b) The irreality of alternatives: towards a typology of disjunction.
<i>Studies in Language</i> 32/1: 22-55. </div>
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<div>I hope you may find them useful for your research!</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">All the best,</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Caterina</div>
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<pre wrap="soft" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="Arial" size="2">Dear all,
Is anybody familiar with languages in which different disjunctions are used in declarative sentences and alternative questions? I am looking for further languages that employ a distinction between declarative '<i>or</i>' (either 'or') and interrogative '<i>or</i>' (whether 'or'). </font></pre>
<pre wrap="soft" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></pre>
<pre wrap="soft" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="Arial" size="2">Tianhua</font></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.5px;">In English the same disjunction<i> </i>is used in both declarative sentences and alternative questions.</span> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2" face="Arial">(1) English<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"> a. <i>I will come this afternoon <b>or</b> tomorrow morning. </i></font></span><font style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">b. <i>Will you come today <b>or</b> tomorrow?</i></span></font><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">In Mandarin Chinese (and most other Sinitic languages),
<i>huozhe</i> ‘or’ is used in declarative sentences and a different disjunction <i>haishi </i>‘or’ is used in alternative questions.</span> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2" face="Arial">(2) Mandarin Chinese<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">wo<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">jintian<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">xiawu<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">huozhe<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">mingtian<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">shangwu<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">lai.<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps;"><font size="2" face="Arial">1sg<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">today<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">or<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">tomorrow<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2" face="Arial">‘I will come this afternoon or tomorrow morning.’</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 20pt; line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">b.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">ni<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">jintian<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">haishi<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">lai?<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps;"><font size="2" face="Arial">2sg<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.4px;"><font size="2" face="Arial">today<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">‘Will you come today or tomorrow?’</span> </font></p>
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