[Lingtyp] REQUEST

[Edoardo Nardi]

Dear Fang,

In Italian, at least in the north-eastern Tuscany varieties (i.e. Florence and neighboring areas), we have that kind of construction, though not particularly frequent and characterize by the following features:
- pragmatically marked meaning (simple emphasis);
- usually, specific prosody;
- usually, repetition of the verb.
For example:

Question: Che mangia i’ figliolo? ‘is the child eating?’ (lit. ‘that eats the child?’)
Answer: mangia (mangia) (lit. ‘eats, eats’) = ‘yes (indeed)’

I would say that it is possible in Florentine, but only under the mentioned specific conditions; that is, it is not a “standard” construction.

Hope this helps!

Best wishes,

Edoardo Nardi, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics and Ancient Greek Language
Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi (Rome)
e.nardi at unimarconi.it

> Il giorno 12 dic 2023, alle ore 12:52, Hongmei Fang <hongmei.fang01 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> Please distribute the following message. Thanks!
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am investigating echo answers, i.e. answers that repeat a fragment part of the polar question that they are responding to. In the following example from Finnish the verb from the question is repeated to mean 'yes'.  
> 
> Question: Osaa-ko Liisa  puhua   ranskaa?
>                  Can-Q   Liisa  speak    French
>                  ‘Can Liisa speak French?’
> Answer:     Osaa
>                   can
>                   ‘Yes.’
> 
> I am looking for specialists and/or native speakers of languages exhibiting this phenomenon who are willing to provide information. 
> 
> I have collected data on some languages such as Finnish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Thai, etc. I am expecting more.
> 
> Examples of other languages which have been reported to have echo answers are: 
> Aguaruna, Atong, Bandial, Bunaq, Chaha, Chickasaw, Chol, Evenki, Garifuna, Georgian, Gwa, Harari, Hindi, Hixkaryana, Hup, Imbabura Quechua, Kannada, Kobon, Latin, Malayalam, Marathi, Mauwake, Mualang, Rapanui, Semelai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Vietnamese, West Greenlandic, Wai Wai, Wari, Yeli Dnye, Yuyuca. 
> 
> But if your language is not in this list but does exhibit echo answers, I would be equally interested.
> 
> Thanking you in advance for your reactions, which you can send to the email address below:
> h.m.fang at uva.nl <mailto:h.m.fang at uva.nl>
> 
> Best regards,
> Hongmei Fang
> 
> 
> Postdoctoral researcher
> University of Amsterdam
> Spuistraat 210, 1012 VB
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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