Representing discourse in clausal syntax: The ki particle in Pharasiot Greek
Journal of Greek Linguistics, cilt.17, sa.2, ss.141-189, 2017 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 17 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2017
- Doi Numarası: 10.1163/15699846-01702001
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Greek Linguistics
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.141-189
- Anahtar Kelimeler: epistemic vigilance, left periphery, Pharasiot Greek, sentience, syntax
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In Pharasiot Greek, an Asia Minor Greek dialect, a certain particle copied from Turkish, ki, is employed in a number of seemingly unrelated constructions. Close scrutiny, however, reveals that in each of these constructions, ki is employed as a device geared to influencing the interlocutor's epistemic vigilance. Based on the Cartographic Approach which defends the syntactization of the interpretive domains, I propose that this unique semantics of ki should be represented in the clause structure. Following recent work which advocates the existence of a pragmatic field-Speech Act Phrase (sap) in particular-above the cp-layer, where discourse and pragmatic roles are mapped onto syntax, I propose that ki is the overt exponent of sa0 and is further endowed with a [+sentience] feature indexing the speaker as the sentient mind. The apparent differences between various construction types which involve ki-hence, in which sap projects-then reduce to whether the [+sentience] feature on sa0 is checked by an internally or externally merging category in Spec, sap.