Polar Question Particle Ke in Bagri
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The aim of this paper is to provide an account for the unique properties of the polar question particle (PQP) Ke in Bagri. Being a dialect of Hindi, this PQP is similar to its Hindi counterpart Kyaa in many aspects: optional occurrence in polar (Yes/No) questions, selectiveness in embedded polar questions, information structural effects. However, unlike Hindi, it is restricted to only polar Y/N questions and cannot occur in a clause-initial position, similar to PQP Ki in Bangla and Odia. Since Ke in Bagri meets all the necessary conditions explicitly laid out in Bhatt and Dayal (2018), we argue that this lexical item qualifies as a PQP residing in ForceP and has a presuppositional requirement that its complement must be a singleton-set question. Moreover, Ke is enclitic in nature requiring some phonological element to be present to its left.
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