[Lingtyp] from connector to focus marker

[Paolo Ramat]

Hi Mohammad,
I don't know whether the attached paper by Simona Messina on Ital.
passepartout *che *( etymologically = Pers,* ke !*) may be interesting to
your  query. "from subordinator to information structure marker". I think
that in spoken Italian the answer could be, at least partially, positive.
At any rate, try to understand the examples you find in the text.

Best,
Paolo

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Il giorno dom 19 feb 2023 alle ore 02:52 Juergen Bohnemeyer <
jb77 at buffalo.edu> ha scritto:

> Dear Mohammad – The following may be obvious to you. In which case, please
> ignore it.
>
>
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> There are two reasonably well-established grammaticalization pathways
> between connectives (and complementizers in particular) and focus markers
> (that I’m aware of). Both involve clefts. Clefts may involve a
> complementizer/subordinator in the subordinate clause, which is often a
> relative clause or RC-like construction. And clefts may of course
> grammaticalize into clause-internal focus constructions (or may be
> misanalyzed as such). You will find examples in Heine & Kuteva (2002).
> Perhaps the earliest widely cited treatment of this nexus is Schachter
> (1973).
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>
> The second route also involves clefts, but in this case, the connection to
> complementizers is an indirect one: demonstratives are a common
> grammaticalization source of both copulas and complementizers, and copulas
> in turn may find their way into clefts, which may again grammaticalize into
> clause-internal focus constructions (etc.).  Again, you’ll find examples in
> Heine & Kuteva (2002).
>
>
>
> Best – Juergen
>
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>
> Heine, B. & T. Kuteva. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization.
> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
> Schachter, P. (1973). Focus and relativization. Language 49: 19–46.
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> *From: *Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> mohammad rasekh <mrasekhmahand at yahoo.com>
> *Date: *Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 5:06 AM
> *To: *LINGTYP LINGTYP <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject: *[Lingtyp] from connector to focus marker
>
> Dear All,
>
> There is a particle in Persian (Iranian language) which has multiple
> functions. This particle is ‘ke’, literally meaning ‘that’. Broadly, it has
> two general/main functions: a)connector (connecting complement, relative
> and adverbial clauses), b) marking some parts of information structure
> (focus, rhetorical question, mirativity, indifference, etc.). Concerning
> this particle, I have two questions:
>
> First, is there any evidence in other languages in which a particle moves
> from subordinator to information structure marker? If there is, I
> appreciate providing me with the sources.
>
> Second, the position of ‘ke’ as adverbial clause marker is not fixed. It
> may appear clause initially, but it moves to different parts of the
> adverbial clause (not the final position). Actually it ‘shifts’. Is there
> any evidence in other languages for this ‘subordinator shift’?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand
>
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> Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand
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