Serbian question particles #
Serbian polar questions are marked by intonation alone, by the enclitic li
hosted by the fronted finite verb, or by sentence-initial da li, which
[Bro93b] regards as the full form of li and which leaves the order of
the rest of the clause free; both markers also introduce embedded and
alternative questions. Colloquial je li and the mirative zar are the
tag-forming markers je li? and zar ne? of [Bro93b]; [Sim24]
reports je li as the colloquial rival of the neutral da li strategy and
zar as the Serbian kin of Russian razve, whose formal semantics the
chapter leaves open. Bias profiles of the strategies live in Simik2024.
References #
li is the enclitic polar question marker, hosted by the finite verb in its full form, which it draws to the front of the clause.
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da li is the sentence-initial polar question marker, the full form of li that leaves the order of the remaining clause free.
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- Serbian.QuestionParticles.daLi = { form := "da li", position := some Particle.Position.clauseInitial, distribution := Serbian.QuestionParticles.li.distribution }
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je li is the colloquial sentence-initial polar question marker, also the tag je li?.
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zar is the clause-initial mirative particle, kin of Russian razve, also the tag zar ne?.
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- Serbian.QuestionParticles.zar = { form := "zar", position := some Particle.Position.clauseInitial, distribution := Serbian.QuestionParticles.jeLi.distribution }