The many functions of Cuzco Quechua =<i>pas</i>: implications for the semantic map of additivity
Author(s) -
Martina Faller
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
glossa a journal of general linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2397-1835
DOI - 10.5334/gjgl.695
Subject(s) - additive function , presupposition , counterexample , focus (optics) , mathematics , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , discrete mathematics , physics , mathematical analysis , optics
The additive enclitic =pas of Cuzco Quechua is multifunctional: besides marking additivity it also participates in the marking of concessivity, epistemic possibility and the formation of non-specific indefinite pronouns. This paper provides a description of these functions and proposes that they all involve a presupposition of existential quantification over alternatives. Their differences result from the type of alternatives quantified over, namely focus, epistemic or wh-alternatives. The particular clustering of functions found with =pas has implications for the semantic map of additivity proposed by Forker (2016), and presents a counterexample to three implicational universals it encapsulates. Modifications to the map are proposed to accommodate =pas, including connecting it with the semantic map of modality, and recognizing scalar additivity as a subtype of additivity.
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