[Lingtyp] REQUEST

Wed Dec 13 00:27:11 UTC 2023

I agree with Paul Hopper here. I’d be surprised if there was a language where you COULDN’T express affirmation by repetition. There’s work in Conversation Analysis that suggests this. Tanya Stivers (2023) ‘The Book of Answers’ OUP would be a good starting point.
I was just yesterday transcribing some Garrwa (Northern Australian, non-Pama-Nyungan) conversations, and came across affirmative repetition answers in the 5 minutes or so that I transcribed.

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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Peter Arkadiev <peterarkadiev at yandex.ru>
Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023 at 1:24 am
To: Paul Hopper <hopper at cmu.edu>, Edoardo Nardi <e.nardi at unimarconi.it>
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] REQUEST
Dear All,

I am wondering if Anders Holmberg's 2016 book "The Syntax of Yes and No" (OUP) might be relevant for this discussion.

Best regards,

Peter

12.12.2023, 17:39, "Paul Hopper" <hopper at cmu.edu>:
An alternative formulation might be: which languages have particles that are specialized for affirmative or negative responses such as yes and no, and how common is this once areal phenomena are included.

Paul

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 7:17 AM Edoardo Nardi <e.nardi at unimarconi.it<mailto:e.nardi at unimarconi.it>> wrote:
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)
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Il giorno 12 dic 2023, alle ore 12:52, Hongmei Fang <hongmei.fang01 at gmail.com<mailto:hongmei.fang01 at gmail.com>> ha scritto:

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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

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University of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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