[Lingtyp] Discourse connectives that do not occur at clause edges

[Ponrawee Prasertsom]

Dear all

Thank you for all the help so far.

I was more interested in syntactically fixed connectives. As far as I know
Wackernagel position is determined phonologically. In Thai I am not aware
of an analysis that shows this is the case. The connective always occurs
post-Subject even in case there is a fronted phrase etc. (So not strictly
second in the sequence). However, I would love to learn more about the
range of variation beyond my interest as well.

Best regards,
Ponrawee


On Mon, 9 Aug 2564 BE at 15:45 Wiemer, Bjoern <wiemerb at uni-mainz.de> wrote:

> Dear Ponrawee,
>
> does your request also concern clitics (e.g., 2P-enclitics, also known as
> Wackernagel clitics)? Your Thai example suggests that position is fixed
> regarding the syntactic function. But do you have in mind also cases in
> which some position is fixed simply in terms of linear sequence?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Björn.
>
>
>
> *Von:* Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] *Im
> Auftrag von *Ponrawee Prasertsom
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 9. August 2021 08:00
> *An:* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Betreff:* [Lingtyp] Discourse connectives that do not occur at clause
> edges
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>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of language(s) with a discourse connective (roughly
> defined as any word that relates two event arguments expressed as clauses)
> that
>
>
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> 1. Has a dedicated (fixed) position in the clause
>
> 2. Does NOT occur clause-initial or -finally
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>
>
> The example I have in mind is Thai /kɔ̂ɔ/ and Lao /kaø/, which always
> occur after the subject. I'm also wondering how much this is specific to
> Southwestern Tai (or Kra-Dai more generally).
>
>
>
> I appreciate every help. Thank you all in advance.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Ponrawee Prasertsom
>
>
>
> Graduate student
>
> Department of Linguistics
>
> Chulalongkorn University
>
-- 
Ponrawee Prasertsom

Postgraduate student
MSc Evolution of Language and Cognition
Centre for Language Evolution
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
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