[Lingtyp] Typological works on echoes

[Joo Ian]

Dear Tasaku,

That is a very interesting piece of information, thank you for sharing it with us. Is it a recurrent pattern in Warrongo (for the hearer to repeat the imperative)? Also, how is the imperative expressed, with a suffix? Would the Japanese equivalent be “watashi ik-e”?

>From Hong Kong,
Ian Joo
http://ianjoo.academia.edu

From: TasakuTsunoda<mailto:tasakutsunoda at nifty.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Typological works on echoes

Dear Ian,

    This may not be what you are looking for, but I have found two sets of interesting examples in the running texts of Warrongo (northeast Australia). Roughly speaking, the examples can be shown as follows.

Speaker A:  You(SG) go-IMPERATIVE.
Speaker B:  I go-IMPERATIVE.

    In Speaker B’s sentence, the subject is now ‘I’, not ‘you(SG). The verb remains in the imperative form.
    Speaker B’s sentence does not seem to mean ‘Let’s go!’. It seems to mean either (a) or (b).

(a) ‘[OK,] I will go.’
(b) ‘Do you mean to say that I should go?’

Please see the following:

Tsunoda, Tasaku. 2011. A grammar of Warrongo (Mouton Grammar Library 53). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

P282, (3-266).
P330, (4-30).

Best wishes,

Tasaku Tsunoda


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件名: [Lingtyp] Typological works on echoes

Dear all,
I would like to know if there are any typological works on echoes, where the speaker repeats what they have just heard, such as (1-3).
(1) A: I'm from Germany.
B: Oh, from Germany.
(2) A: It's really a nice day.
B: Yeah, a nice day.
(3) A: Go to the supermarket.
B: To the supermarket, okay.
I would greatly appreciate any reading suggestions.
>From Hong Kong,
Ian Joo
http://ianjoo.academia.edu

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