<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Old Uyghur is another SOV language where the construction <i>nä ü</i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:101%"><i>čün tesär</i>, literally 'if one says "Why?"', <i>very </i>commonly signifies 'because'.</span></font><div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:101%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="4">Marcel Erdal</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Sa., 9. Nov. 2024 um 18:16 Uhr schrieb Jeremy Bradley via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
I am looking at the conventionalization, eventually grammaticalization <br>
of phrases meaning something along the lines of 'if you say/ask why' as <br>
causal conjunctions 'because', in the languages of the world. I'm <br>
currently aware of this happening (with some variation in the exact <br>
structuring) in:<br>
<br>
Mari (Uralic)<br>
Udmurt (Uralic)<br>
Chuvash (Turkic)<br>
Buryat (Mongolic)<br>
Lezgian (Northeast Caucasian)<br>
Tamil (Dravidian)<br>
Middle Indo-Aryan (IE)<br>
Japanese<br>
Korean<br>
<br>
... which all have in common that they're SOV languages; it strikes me <br>
as plausible that this is a pattern that easily arises when an SOV <br>
language "needs" a mechanism for a postposed causal clause. But two <br>
things I'm curious about:<br>
<br>
1) Does anybody know of other languages that do this, esp. <br>
non-SOV-languages?<br>
<br>
2) Does anybody know about any systematic research on this process?<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Jeremy<br>
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Jeremy Bradley, Ph.D.<br>
University of Vienna<br>
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