{"title":"Once known, always known. Turn-final sai in North-East regional Italian","authors":"Marco Biasio, Dario Del Fante","doi":"10.1515/flin-2024-2001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb-based discourse marker, <jats:sc>sai</jats:sc> (lit. ‘you know’), which in its turn-final position is a conversational hallmark of the regional variety of Standard Italian spoken in and around Padova, in the north-eastern region of Veneto. Drawing from a series of distributional and scopal constraints (including the interaction with other turn-initial and turn-final verb-based discourse markers, vocative phrases, verum focus, and the negative polarity item <jats:italic>mica</jats:italic>), it is claimed that both turn-initial and turn-final <jats:sc>sai</jats:sc> are best analyzed as intersubjectively-oriented Common Ground management operators (Repp, Sophie. 2013. Common ground management: Modal particles, illocutionary negation and verum. In Daniel Gutzmann & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), <jats:italic>Beyond expressives: explorations in use-conditional meaning</jats:italic> (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 28), 231–274. Leiden & Boston: Brill) activated by Speaker’s salient presuppositional biases of opposite polarity. Syntactically, within Interactional Spine Hypothesis (Wiltschko, Martina. 2021. <jats:italic>The grammar of interactional language</jats:italic>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), it is shown how both turn-initial and turn-final <jats:sc>sai</jats:sc> are base-generated above the C system, in the specifier position of the lower (Speaker-oriented) field of the so-called GroundP, and then moved up to the specifier position of the higher (Addressee-oriented) GroundP; additionally, the mild-rising intonational contour associated with turn-final <jats:sc>sai</jats:sc> is claimed to perform a call on the Addressee, which activates the corresponding Resp(onse)P above GroundP. These results contribute to the available literature on the micropragmatic process of construction and negotiation of context-bound evidential meanings, also as a tool to foster manipulative processes.","PeriodicalId":45269,"journal":{"name":"Folia Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folia Linguistica","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2001","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb-based discourse marker, sai (lit. ‘you know’), which in its turn-final position is a conversational hallmark of the regional variety of Standard Italian spoken in and around Padova, in the north-eastern region of Veneto. Drawing from a series of distributional and scopal constraints (including the interaction with other turn-initial and turn-final verb-based discourse markers, vocative phrases, verum focus, and the negative polarity item mica), it is claimed that both turn-initial and turn-final sai are best analyzed as intersubjectively-oriented Common Ground management operators (Repp, Sophie. 2013. Common ground management: Modal particles, illocutionary negation and verum. In Daniel Gutzmann & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), Beyond expressives: explorations in use-conditional meaning (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 28), 231–274. Leiden & Boston: Brill) activated by Speaker’s salient presuppositional biases of opposite polarity. Syntactically, within Interactional Spine Hypothesis (Wiltschko, Martina. 2021. The grammar of interactional language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), it is shown how both turn-initial and turn-final sai are base-generated above the C system, in the specifier position of the lower (Speaker-oriented) field of the so-called GroundP, and then moved up to the specifier position of the higher (Addressee-oriented) GroundP; additionally, the mild-rising intonational contour associated with turn-final sai is claimed to perform a call on the Addressee, which activates the corresponding Resp(onse)P above GroundP. These results contribute to the available literature on the micropragmatic process of construction and negotiation of context-bound evidential meanings, also as a tool to foster manipulative processes.
本文重点研究了一个位置灵活的动词性话语标记--sai("你知道")的结构和功能特性,该动词性话语标记的转折-终结位置是东北部威尼托大区帕多瓦及其周边地区标准意大利语的一个会话标志。根据一系列分布和句法限制(包括与其他转入式和转终式动词性话语标记、词汇短语、verum focus 和负极性项目 mica 的交互作用),我们认为转入式和转终式 sai 最好被分析为主体间导向的共同点管理操作符(Repp,Sophie.2013.Common Ground Management:Modal particles, illocutionary negation and verum.In Daniel Gutzmann & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), Beyond expressives: explorations in use-conditional meaning (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 28), 231-274.Leiden & Boston:Brill)激活的说话者的突出预设偏向极性相反。在句法上,互动脊梁假说(Wiltschko, Martina.2021.互动语言的语法》。剑桥:此外,与转折终结赛相关的轻微升高的语调轮廓被认为是对受话人的召唤,它激活了 GroundP 上相应的 Resp(onse)P。这些结果为现有文献中关于构建和协商受语境限制的证据意义的微观语用过程做出了贡献,同时也是促进操纵过程的工具。
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Folia Linguistica covers all non-historical areas in the traditional disciplines of general linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), and also sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory. Other areas of central concern are grammaticalization and language typology. The journal consists of scientific articles presenting results of original research, review articles, overviews of research in specific areas, book reviews, and a miscellanea section carrying reports and discussion notes. In addition, proposals from prospective guest editors for occasional special issues on selected current topics are welcomed.