[Lingtyp] Typological works on echoes

[TasakuTsunoda]

Dear Ian,

 

(i) In the Warrongo running texts of 6 hours 40 minutes, I have found only two sets of examples involving the imperative. So, this phenomenon seems to be not common in Warrongo.

 

(ii) Warrongo has two suffixes for the imperative:

 

-Ø (zero), mainly used for transitive verbs.

-yal, mainly used for intransitive verbs.

 

There are a few verbs that may take either suffix.

 

(iii) A Japanese equivalent may be something like the following.

 

Watashi=ga  ik-e.

I=NOM        go-IMP

 

I do not remember hearing such a sentence, but I think it can be used, and that it can mean ‘Do you mean to say that I should go?’ This is similar to the (b) reading below.

 

Best wishes,

 

Tasaku Tsunoda

 

送信元: Joo Ian <ian.joo at outlook.com>
日付: 2018年6月17日日曜日 16:34
宛先: TasakuTsunoda <tasakutsunoda at nifty.com>, "lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
件名: RE: [Lingtyp] Typological works on echoes

 

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
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2018 2:59 PM
To: Joo Ian; lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
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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日付: 2018年6月16日土曜日 2:41
宛先: "lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
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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