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<div>Jingpho (Sino-Tibetan) seems to have a peculiar case of:</div>
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<div>Hpa: What</div>
<div>Majaw: Because</div>
<div>Hpa majaw: Why, lit. what-because</div>
<div>Hpa majaw nga yang: Because, lit. what-because be if</div>
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<div>So “why” is “what-because”, but “if why” can also be “because” ...</div>
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<div>Source: A dictionary of Jinghpaw usage (in Japanese) <a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/documents/training/ilc/textbooks/2019jinghpaw3.pdf">http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/documents/training/ilc/textbooks/2019jinghpaw3.pdf</a></div>
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<div>2024/11/10 00:15, Jeremy Bradley via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> 작성:</div>
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<div>Dear all,<br>
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I am looking at the conventionalization, eventually grammaticalization of phrases meaning something along the lines of 'if you say/ask why' as causal conjunctions 'because', in the languages of the world. I'm currently aware of this happening (with some variation
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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>
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... which all have in common that they're SOV languages; it strikes me as plausible that this is a pattern that easily arises when an SOV language "needs" a mechanism for a postposed causal clause. But two things I'm curious about:<br>
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1) Does anybody know of other languages that do this, esp. non-SOV-languages?<br>
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2) Does anybody know about any systematic research on this process?<br>
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Jeremy<br>
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