[Lingtyp] from connector to focus marker

[Christian Lehmann]

Hi Mohammad,

subordinative conjunctions can be enclitic in Latin and certainly other 
Indo-European languages. Thus, they do not need to introduce their 
clause, but may follow its first constituent.

The way in which Persian /ke/ became an information structure marker is 
probably ascertainable by inspecting texts of earlier stages of the 
language. In contemporary Portuguese, the (cognate) subordinator /que/ 
is a component of the expression /é que/ (copula subordinator) which 
(among other things) follows the focus of a clause.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/é_que

Best,

Christian Lehmann

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