Questions and Answers in Creole Languages

克里奥尔语问答

• 批准号: 26702143
• 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 Grants
• 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/26702143?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.

本研究旨在研究克里奥尔语疑问句形成的一般过程。本文旨在从理论的角度对程(1997)的从句类型假设进行评价，并探讨焦点与疑问句之间的关系以及疑问句中的填空依赖是否是实际移位的结果。另一种观点是比较的。这里的主要问题之一是是否存在集群效应：(I)克里奥尔语语言中哪些问题形成的性质是一致的？(Ii)我们发现克里奥尔语语言之间有什么差异，这种差异在多大程度上是由上层和/或底层语言对随后的克里奥尔语的影响决定的？为此，我们在现有文献的基础上，对疑问句和焦点句进行了交叉克里奥尔比较。到目前为止，还没有对WH-结构和焦点结构的性质进行系统、完整的考察。我们通过对帕皮亚门图和牙买加克里奥尔语的实地考察，以及通过与致力于一套定义明确的这些语言的语言学家的合作，填补了空白。ZAS项目(P11)中开发的QonQ问卷，以及SFB 632“信息结构”D2项目开发的测试套件将作为本次调查的基础。