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Focus–cleft merger: Difference between revisions
reduce intro to a link to Topic, focus, cleft; add a section on {{t|ná}}, which I just find so cute
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This {{proposal}}, which may colloquially be termed the {{class|kü}} proposal, wishes to merge | This {{proposal}}, which may colloquially be termed the {{class|kü}} proposal, wishes to merge these seemingly heterogeneous features together: [[focus, topic, cleft]]s. In short, it does this by allowing focus markers to conjugate into clefts ({{class|kú}} → {{class|kü}}), and then runs the logic the opposite way to arrive at {{t|bí}}. | ||
== Focus marker clefts == | == Focus marker clefts == | ||
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: {{t|{{small caps|phrase}} bï, {{small caps|phrase}} nä {{small caps|clause}}}}. | : {{t|{{small caps|phrase}} bï, {{small caps|phrase}} nä {{small caps|clause}}}}. | ||
In other words, the focused (or should I say topicked?) clause is reasserted (kept intact), but also raised/copied as the topic. So for {{t|Fa jí bí râo níchaq}}, instead of ‘As for [something being] today, I go’ (see reference), we should expect ‘As for [something being] today, I go today’. | In other words, the focused (or should I say topicked?) clause is reasserted (kept intact), but also raised/copied as the topic. So for {{t|Fa jí bí râo níchaq}}, instead of ‘As for [something being] today, I go’ (see reference), we should expect ‘As for [something being] today, I go today’. | ||
== {{t|ná}} == | |||
One silly consequence of running the {{tone|2}} ↔︎ {{tone|3}} logic both ways is that we may arrive at {{t|ná}}. {{t|ná}}’s definition (denotation) would literally be “do nothing” (more formally, λ𝑓𝑥.𝑓𝑥), so what use could it have? The one use I can think of is grammatical clarity: you can use it like a spoken comma or bracket or fence/signpost to make your long sentences easier to stomach: | |||
<blockquote><poem> | |||
{{t|Jeq suao {{orange|ná, ꝡé do súq jí hóa,}} {{green|ná, ꝡé do jí súq hóa}} da.}} | |||
<i>{{orange|The things you’ve given me}} are equally important as {{green|the things I’ve given you}}.</i> | |||
</poem></blockquote> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||