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Particle

import Linglib.Syntax.Category.Particle.Basic

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A Particle is the lexical core of an uninflectable function word in Zwicky's sense: its form, its position relative to its host, and its Clause.Distribution over sentence types in embedding contexts. The distribution records where the source finds the particle obligatory, optional or excluded, and nothing where the source is silent; it records distributional felicity, not the licensing mechanism, which is a study's matter. The cells where a particle is licensed are p.distribution.possible, and its sentence-type and embedding-context profiles are that relation's dom and cod.

Main definitions

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Declarations

Where a particle sits relative to its host domain, Zwicky's positional diagnostic.

inductive Particle.PositionL30–44
:
Type
  • clauseInitial : Position
  • secondPosition : Position

    Second position (Wackernagel; Russian 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 (Turkish mI, Bulgarian li on the focus).

  • free : Position

    No fixed position (Hindi-Urdu kya:).

Derives DecidableEq, Repr.

Used by Particle

An uninflectable function word associated with a host constituent.

structure ParticleL46–57
:
Type
  • 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 : Clause.Distribution

    The recorded occurrence of the particle in each cell; none where the source records nothing.

Derives DecidableEq.

Built from

Instances Ochs1992.instDiscreteMeasurableSpaceParticle_studies, Ochs1992.instMeasurableSpaceParticle_studies

Used in Fragments/Dutch/Particles, Fragments/English/Particles, Fragments/German/Particles, Fragments/Hausa/Focus, Fragments/HindiUrdu/Particles and 24 more