TY  - CHAP
A1  - Saito, Hiroaki
A1  - Stegovec, Adrian
T1  - The pa/wa of imperative alternatives
T2  - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 2 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 61
N2  - This paper deals with topic markers interacting with discourse information in imperatives. It compares two topic markers from Slovenian (‘pa’) and Japanese (‘-wa’) and shows that while they mostly match in terms of the foci they associate with, their functions differ in imperatives: only ‘pa’ may yield a concessive imperative reading. It is shown that this reading can be derived while keeping a single entry for ‘pa’ by making attitudes of discourse participants part of the focus ‘pa’ associates with. The split between Slovenian and Japanese can then be attributed to minor differences in terms of which foci ‘pa’ and ‘-wa’ may associate with.
KW  - performative modality
KW  - topic markers
KW  - imperatives
KW  - Slovenian
KW  - Japanese
KW  - alternative semantics
KW  - focus
KW  - discourse particles
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55848
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558481
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
SP  - 325
EP  - 342
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -