<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m struck by the fact that most of the English examples cited are truncated questions, where intonation<div class="">may signal the sentence type, so the V/S inversion is redundant. I can think of quite a few examples,</div><div class="">such as “Going home?”, “Making a pie?”, “Raining again?”, even “Drink?”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2022, at 03:58, David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" class="">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Nice examples, Cat. Though if the gist of these examples is to suggest that deletion can apply to two syllables and not just to one, then I would offer an possible alternative analysis whereby your two sentences involve the deletion of a reduced monosyllable, applying to forms such as<br class=""><br class="">[zðæt] feel good, baby?<br class="">[jə] have any luck?<br class=""><br class="">I look forward to reading the Gerken article mentioned by Adam, which seems to capture my intuitions that whatever is going on here is at least partly of a phonological nature.<br class=""><br class="">David<br class=""><br class="">On 01/11/2022 11:30, Cat Butz wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">To me, it feels more like a morphosyntactic thing rather than a phonological one. Consider e.g.<br class=""><br class="">(Does that) Feel good, baby?<br class="">(Did you) Have any luck?<br class=""><br class="">---<br class="">Cat Butz (she/they)<br class="">HHU Düsseldorf, General Linguistics<br class="">Institute of Language and Information<br class=""><br class="">Cat Butz (sie)<br class="">HHU Düsseldorf, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft<br class="">Institut für Sprache und Information<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Am 2022-10-28 14:11, schrieb David Gil:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">English seems to have a rule which, under particular conditions,<br class="">allows for the first syllable of an utterance to be deleted. The<br class="">first example below is from a movie that I saw last night, the next<br class="">two are made up:<br class=""><br class="">(1) (What) The fuck happened to you?<br class=""><br class="">(2) (Are) You going home yet?<br class=""><br class="">(3) (I) Think it's gonna rain<br class=""><br class="">And there's also the formulaic "Wish you were here".<br class=""><br class="">My questions:<br class=""><br class="">1. Has anybody written about this? Seems like it could be interesting<br class="">for a number of reasons.<br class=""><br class="">2. Are there similar phenomena in other languages? (Haven't seen<br class="">anything like it in the other languages I happen to be familiar with.)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">David<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">David Gil<br class=""><br class="">Senior Scientist (Associate)<br class="">Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution<br class="">Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br class="">Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" class="">Email: gil@shh.mpg.de</a><br class="">Mobile Phone (Israel): +972-526117713<br class="">Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-082113720302<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Lingtyp mailing list<br class="">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br class="">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Lingtyp mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br class="">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">David Gil<br class=""><br class="">Senior Scientist (Associate)<br class="">Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution<br class="">Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br class="">Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" class="">Email: gil@shh.mpg.de</a><br class="">Mobile Phone (Israel): +972-526117713<br class="">Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-082113720302<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Lingtyp mailing list<br class="">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br class="">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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