[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Reduplicated interrogative pronouns

[Zakaria Rehman]

Dear Nathan,

Thanks for the example and the attachment. Reduplication of interrogative
pronouns can be done both lexically and morphologically in Hyow. Here are
two examples:

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Cheers,
Zakaria

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 05:34, Nathan Straub 曹內森 <nstraub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Zakaria,
>
> Could you please give some sentence or text examples from Hyow,
> illustrating what you mean?
>
> Meanwhile, check out Ross Perlin's 2019 grammar of Trung (attached). See
> pages 79-81 on interrogative/indefinite pronouns, pages 102-103 on
> reduplication, and page 417 for the dictionary entry for the word for
> 'who'. I've taken the definition and examples from the page 417 and
> annotated it below:
>
> <vmi> /ə³¹mi⁵⁵/ interrog. 'who'.
> <na vmi ne?> (na⁵³ 'you.SG' ə³¹mi⁵⁵ 'who' nə³¹-ɛ⁵³
> 'Marked.Scenario/2nd.Person-be) 'Who are you?'
> <vngning vmi mi e?> (əŋ³¹niŋ⁵⁵ 'they' ə³¹mi⁵⁵-mi⁵⁵ 'who-REDUP' ɛ⁵³ 'be')
> 'Who are all of them?'
> <vmi mi> (ə³¹mi⁵⁵-mi⁵⁵ 'who-REDUP') 'everyone'
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Nathan
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 7:07 PM Zakaria Rehman <rehman.zakaria at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I would really appreciate if you could help me with the following issue.
>>
>> There are examples of lexical reduplications of interrogative pronouns
>> (functions as relative pronouns) in replicated relative-correlative clauses
>> in Hyow, a Southeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in the Chittagong Hill
>> Tracts of Bangladesh. The reduplicated interrogative pronouns usually
>> express what Montaut (2009: 25) calls “each element with no exception”. I
>> wonder if there are any other languages you know of or study which show
>> reduplications of interrogative pronouns in any context. One of the
>> reviewers of the journal article where I presented the relevant data
>> mentioned about *joo* in Galo (Post 2007). In a personal correspondence,
>> VanBik mentioned about reduplication of interrogative pronouns in Burmese.
>> I was wondering if it has anything to do with contacts with IA languages?
>> Any reference or example would be really appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Zakaria
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