[Lingtyp] common background particles

[E. Bashir]

There is an element used in Urdu, یوں تو /yū̃ to/ (lit. like.this-TOPICALIZER) which introduces a sentence and means something like 'as is (well) known'.
Elena BashirDepartment of South Asian Languages and CivilizationsThe University of Chicago

      From: Hartmut Haberland <hartmut at ruc.dk>
 To: Vladimir Panov <panovmeister at gmail.com>; "LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org" <LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 10:16 AM
 Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] common background particles
   
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    Fra: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>På vegne af Vladimir Panov
Sendt: 4. december 2018 17:03
Til: LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org
Emne: [Lingtyp] common background particles    Dear collegues,    In some languages of Europe (e.g. Russian and German) there are special markers ("particles") that have among their core functions the one of "reminding" the hearer of some common background information that s/he is expected to share with the speaker.    Russian: S1: Magazin zakryt.       shop      closed       The shop is closed    S2: Konečno, segodnia že    voskresen'je       of.course  today      PRT  Sunday       Of course, (you know that) today is Sunday.    In Russian, že has some other prominent functions as well. A very similar meaning is also provided by the sentence-initialved' ("common ground" is its core meaning). For German, the particles jaand, to a certain extent, doch are often descirbed in similar terms. For both German and Russian, these particles have been extensively studied.    Markers having this meaning as at least one of the prominent ones are found in many languages the Circum-Baltic region, Eastern and Northern Europe, Finno-Ugric languages of the European part of Russia. However, they seem to be rare or even absent in Romance languages (but are present in Latin), the rest of West Germanic languages and in the Balkans. Arguably, the overt marking of this meaning may be considered an areal feature of this particular macroregion.    I would like to ask if anyone is aware of languages beyond Europe that have this type of markers. I am mostly interested in the rest of Eurasia, but not only.    Thank you, Vladimir Panov (Vilnius University / Russian Academy of Sciences) _______________________________________________
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