A preliminary investigation of the formation of constituent questions in Karata (Nakh-Daghestanian)

Authors

  • Jeremy Pasquereau University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Rashidat Khalidova State Pedagogical University of Daghestan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4081

Keywords:

question particle, constituent questions, Karata, Caucasian

Abstract

This paper gives a first description of the formation of constituent questions in the understudied Karata language. It gives the first description of constituent questions in this language and argues that they exhibit the characteristics predicted of type 4 languages by Cable 2010's theory.

Author Biographies

  • Jeremy Pasquereau, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Department of Linguistics
  • Rashidat Khalidova, State Pedagogical University of Daghestan
    Department of Russian studies

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Published

2017-06-19

Issue

Vol. 2 (2017): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Section

Articles

License

Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Pasquereau, Jeremy, and Rashidat Khalidova. 2017. “A Preliminary Investigation of the Formation of Constituent Questions in Karata (Nakh-Daghestanian)”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2 (June): 50:1–11. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4081.