<div dir="ltr">Hi Mohammad,<div>I don't know whether the attached paper by Simona Messina on Ital. passepartout <i>che </i>( etymologically = Pers,<i> ke !</i>) may be interesting to your query. "from subordinator to information structure marker". I think that in spoken Italian the answer could be, at least partially, positive.</div><div>At any rate, try to understand the examples you find in the text.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Paolo</div><div><br></div><div>Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat<br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div>Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente<br><div>'Academia Europaea'</div><div>'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member</div></div><div><div>Università di Pavia (retired)</div><div>Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia) (retired)</div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">piazzetta Arduino 11 - I 27100 Pavia</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">##39 0382 27027</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">347 044 98 44</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno dom 19 feb 2023 alle ore 02:52 Juergen Bohnemeyer <<a href="mailto:jb77@buffalo.edu">jb77@buffalo.edu</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5665256593991428753">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear Mohammad – The following may be obvious to you. In which case, please ignore it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">There are two reasonably well-established grammaticalization pathways between connectives (and complementizers in particular) and focus markers (that I’m aware of). Both involve clefts. Clefts may involve
a complementizer/subordinator in the subordinate clause, which is often a relative clause or RC-like construction. And clefts may of course grammaticalize into clause-internal focus constructions (or may be misanalyzed as such). You will find examples in Heine
& Kuteva (2002). Perhaps the earliest widely cited treatment of this nexus is Schachter (1973).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The second route also involves clefts, but in this case, the connection to complementizers is an indirect one: demonstratives are a common grammaticalization source of both copulas and complementizers, and
copulas in turn may find their way into clefts, which may again grammaticalize into clause-internal focus constructions (etc.). Again, you’ll find examples in Heine & Kuteva (2002).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Best – Juergen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Heine, B. & T. Kuteva. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Schachter, P. (1973). Focus and relativization. Language 49: 19–46.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] from connector to focus marker<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="m_-5201114256297217021ydp10a8347fmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Dear All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_-5201114256297217021ydp10a8347fmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">There is a particle in Persian (Iranian language) which has multiple functions. This particle is ‘ke’, literally meaning ‘that’. Broadly, it has two general/main functions:
a)connector (connecting complement, relative and adverbial clauses), b) marking some parts of information structure (focus, rhetorical question, mirativity, indifference, etc.). Concerning this particle, I have two questions:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_-5201114256297217021ydp10a8347fmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">First, is there any evidence in other languages in which a particle moves from subordinator to information structure marker? If there is, I appreciate providing me with
the sources.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_-5201114256297217021ydp10a8347fmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Second, the position of ‘ke’ as adverbial clause marker is not fixed. It may appear clause initially, but it moves to different parts of the adverbial clause (not the
final position). Actually it ‘shifts’. Is there any evidence in other languages for this ‘subordinator shift’?
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