[Lingtyp] Topic and focus markers with other functions

[Kilu von Prince]

Hi Frederick,

the Chinese copula is an obvious candidate. I'm shamelessly self-promoting
the article I wrote about its semantics in both functions, see attached.

All the best,
Kilu

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:09 AM Frederick J Newmeyer <fjn at uw.edu> wrote:

> Dear Lingtyp,
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> I am looking for examples where topic markers or focus markers in some
> language are clearly members of some broad morphosyntactic category.
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> Let me give an example involving negatives of the sort of thing that I am
> looking for. Negative elements in various languages are often members of a
> broader category: in Estonian negative particles are auxiliaries, in Tongan
> they are complement-taking verbs, in English they are adverbs, and so on.
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> So what I am looking for are parallel examples with topic and focus
> markers: cases where a reasonable analysis would assign them to some
> broader category.
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> Thanks,
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> Fritz
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> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
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