29.223, Qs: Stressed vs unstressed `again' in Romanian

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Subject: 29.223, Qs: Stressed vs unstressed `again' in Romanian

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:07:10
From: Agnes Bende-Farkas [agnesbf at gmail.com]
Subject: Stressed vs unstressed `again' in Romanian

 
Dear Colleagues, 

Among Romanian expressions for `again', `iar' appears to be exceptional: 

(i) It is in fact ambiguous between something like `and', and `again'. As
`and' it is unstressed, as `again' it is stressed. 

(1) 
a. Maria s-a dus la Predeal, iar Petre la Londra. 
Mary went to Predeal and Peter to London. 
b. Maria IAR s-a dus la Predeal 
Mary has gone to Predeal again 

(ii) `Iar' appears exceptional among expressions conveying 
AGAIN, in that it can only be stressed (whereas English 
`again' can appear with or without stress -and special accenting-, cf. work by
Klein or Beck). 

I would be grateful for any and all crosslinguistic data either on the
relations between `again' and other particles/conjunctions, or on stressed vs
unstressed `again'. 

I'd also be grateful for (any and all) pointers to the literature. 

Sincerely, Agnes Bende-Farkas 

(RIL--HAS Budapest; e-mail: agnesbf at gmail.com)

P.s. My background on this issue: I've started work on the
evolution/diachronic formal semantics of Old Hungarian `esm\'eg' `again'. The
peculiarities of Romanian `iar' were discovered purely by accident.
 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)

Language Family(ies): Romance



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