[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Reduplicated interrogative pronouns

[Nathan Straub 曹內森]

Hi Zakaria,

This does give me a better idea of what you're looking for, but I am
getting a little bit lost in your two examples. Can you help me understand?

The first example has reduplication of the first word, with some kind of
plural or 'all' meaning, but in the second example, the only reduplication
I see is with the anaphoric demonstrative.

Could you please also give a list of abbreviations used in the examples? I
looked on the Leipzig glossing list and your PhD thesis and several of the
ones in these examples didn't appear there.

Thanks,
Nathan

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 22:55 Zakaria Rehman <rehman.zakaria at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>>
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