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

Jérémy Pasquereau (1, 2, 3) , Rashidat Khalidova

1 UNIS - University of Surrey
2 Poitiers UFR LL - Université de Poitiers - UFR Lettres et langues
3 FoReLL [Poitiers] - Formes et représentations en linguistique et littérature [EA 3816]

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.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Jérémy Pasquereau, Rashidat Khalidova. A preliminary investigation of the formation of constituent questions in Karata (Nakh-Daghestanian). LSA annual conference, 2, Linguistic Society of America, pp.50, 2017, ⟨10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4081⟩. ⟨hal-03219161⟩