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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Ponrawee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:.15pt">does your request also concern clitics (e.g., 2P-enclitics, also known as Wackernagel clitics)? Your Thai example suggests that position is fixed regarding the syntactic function. But do you
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Ponrawee Prasertsom<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 9. August 2021 08:00<br>
<b>An:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Lingtyp] Discourse connectives that do not occur at clause edges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know of language(s) with a discourse connective (roughly defined as any word that relates two event arguments expressed as clauses) that<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Has a dedicated (fixed) position in the clause<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Does NOT occur clause-initial or -finally<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The example I have in mind is Thai /kɔ̂ɔ/ and Lao /kaø/, which always occur after the subject. I'm also wondering how much this is specific to Southwestern Tai (or Kra-Dai more generally). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I appreciate every help. Thank you all in advance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Ponrawee Prasertsom</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate student<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chulalongkorn University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Ponrawee Prasertsom</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Postgraduate student<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MSc Evolution of Language and Cognition<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Centre for Language Evolution<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
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