<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can add Turkish to your list. The main verb can be echoed in replying to yes/no questions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Question: Lisa Fransizca biliyor mu? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> Lisa French knows y/nQ</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Answer: Biliyor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> knows (=yes, she does)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 3:52 AM Hongmei Fang <<a href="mailto:hongmei.fang01@gmail.com">hongmei.fang01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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 dir="ltr">Please distribute the following message. Thanks!<div><br><div><br></div><div>Dear all,<br><br>I am investigating echo answers, i.e. answers that repeat a fragment part of the polar question that they are responding to. In the following example from Finnish the verb from the question is repeated to mean 'yes'. <br><br>Question: <i>Osaa-ko Liisa puhua ranskaa?</i><br> Can-Q Liisa speak French<br> ‘Can Liisa speak French?’<br>Answer: <i>Osaa</i><br> can<br> ‘Yes.’</div><div><br>I am looking for specialists and/or native speakers of languages exhibiting this phenomenon who are willing to provide information. </div><div><br></div><div>I have collected data on some languages such as Finnish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Thai, etc. I am expecting more.</div><div><br></div><div>Examples of other languages which have been reported to have echo answers are: </div><div>Aguaruna, Atong, Bandial, Bunaq, Chaha, Chickasaw, Chol, Evenki, Garifuna, Georgian, Gwa, Harari, Hindi, Hixkaryana, Hup, Imbabura Quechua, Kannada, Kobon, Latin, Malayalam, Marathi, Mauwake, Mualang, Rapanui, Semelai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Vietnamese, West Greenlandic, Wai Wai, Wari, Yeli Dnye, Yuyuca. </div><div><br></div><div>But if your language is not in this list but does exhibit echo answers, I would be equally interested.<br><br>Thanking you in advance for your reactions, which you can send to the email address below:</div><div><a href="mailto:h.m.fang@uva.nl" target="_blank">h.m.fang@uva.nl</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Hongmei Fang</div><div><br></div><div><br><i>Postdoctoral researcher<br>University of Amsterdam<br>Spuistraat 210, 1012 VB<br>Amsterdam, The Netherlands</i><br></div></div></div>
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