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Linglib.Syntax.Category.Particle.Basic

Particle #

This file defines Particle, the lexical core for uninflectable function words ([zwicky-1985-clitics]): form, position, and a recorded distribution over licensing cells — pairs of a [sadock-zwicky-1985] sentence type (interrogatives subtyped by the Semantics/Questions constructions) and a Clause.EmbeddingContext. The distribution records distributional felicity, not licensing mechanism (analytical, study-side); a none cell means the source records nothing, not exclusion. Sentence-type and embedding-context profiles are marginals of the table, derived by existential projection (LicensedIn, LicensedInEmbed), never stored separately.

Main declarations #

Where a particle sits relative to its host domain — the [zwicky-1985-clitics] positional diagnostic.

  • clauseInitial : Position
  • secondPosition : Position

    Second position (Wackernagel; Slavic li).

  • clauseMedial : Position

    Clause-medial / middle field (German denn, Swedish väl).

  • clauseFinal : Position
  • preHost : Position

    Immediately before a host constituent (adnominal focus particles).

  • postHost : Position

    Immediately after a host constituent.

  • free : Position

    No fixed position (Hindi-Urdu kya:, [BD20] §2).

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    def Particle.instReprPosition.repr :
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      inductive ParticleStatus :

      Three-valued distribution status of a particle in a licensing context (cf. WALS ch. 116).

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        def instReprParticleStatus.repr :
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          Sentence-type cells of the particle licensing space: the [sadock-zwicky-1985] types, interrogatives subtyped.

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            def Particle.instReprClauseType.repr :
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              structure Particle :

              An uninflectable function word associated with a host constituent ([zwicky-1985-clitics]).

              • form : String

                Surface form (romanization or orthographic).

              • script : Option String

                Native-script form, when form is a romanization (Mandarin 吗).

              • position : Option Position

                Host/position class; none when the source records no placement.

              • distribution : ClauseTypeClause.EmbeddingContextOption ParticleStatus

                Recorded status per licensing cell (sentence type × embedding context); none when the source records nothing for that cell.

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                def instDecidableEqParticle.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Particle) :
                Decidable (x✝ = x✝¹)
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                  The particle is positively recorded as available (obligatorily or optionally) in the sentence-type × embedding cell (c, e).

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                    Positively recorded in sentence type c, in some embedding context.

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                      Positively recorded in embedding context e, for some sentence type.

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                        Some cell is recorded (the sentential/illocutionary particle family: question, modal, sentence-final particles).

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                          Projection to Word (UD PART).

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