Questions and Answers in Creole Languages

克里奥尔语问答

• 批准号: 26683110
• 负责人: Dr. Tonjes Veenstra
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-31 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/26683110?language=en
• 关键词: Questions; Answers; Creole; Languages

This research project proposes to study the general process of question formation in creole languages. From a theoretical perspective, it aims to evaluate the Clausal Typing Hypothesis of Cheng (1997), and to explore the relationship between focus and questions as well as the question whether the filler-gap dependency in questions is the result of actual movement. The other perspective is comparative. One of the leading questions here is whether there is a clustering effect: (i) which properties of question formation are uniform across creole languages?; (ii) what variation do we find between creole languages, and to what extent is this variation determined by the influence of superstrate and/or substrate languages on the ensuing creole? For this purpose, we undertake a cross-creole comparison of question formation and focus constructions on the basis of the existing literature. Up till now, there is no systematic and complete survey of the properties of wh- and focus constructions. The gaps we fill through fieldwork on Papiamentu and Jamaican Creole, as well as through colloboration with linguists working on a well-defined set of these languages. The QonQ-questionaire, as being developed in the ZAS-project (P11), as well as the testsuite developed by the D2-project of the SFB 632 Informationsstruktur will serve as the basis of this survey.

本研究计画拟探讨克里奥尔语疑问句形成的一般过程。本文从理论上对Cheng（1997）的小句类型假设进行了评价，并探讨了焦点与疑问句的关系以及疑问句中的填充语-空缺依赖是否是实际移动的结果。另一个视角是比较。这里的一个主要问题是是否有一个集群效应：（i）在克里奥尔语中，疑问句形成的哪些属性是一致的？(ii)我们在克里奥尔语之间发现了什么样的变化，这种变化在多大程度上是由上层语言和/或下层语言对随后的克里奥尔语的影响所决定的？为此，我们在现有文献的基础上对疑问句和焦点结构进行跨克里奥尔语的比较。到目前为止，人们还没有对wh-和focus结构的性质进行系统而全面的研究。我们通过对Papiamentu和牙买加克里奥尔语的实地考察，以及通过与语言学家在这些语言中定义明确的一组语言上的合作来填补空白。在ZAS项目（P11）中开发的QonQ问卷以及SFB 632 Informationsstruktur的D2项目开发的测试套件将作为本次调查的基础。