okhane ke daMRiye re? there who RE stand.Conjv? there who stand.Conjv RE d. ke re okhane daMRiye? who RE there stand.Conjv? ‘Who is standing there?’ b. kar SOngge re diliper biye? who with RE Dilip’s wedding 6. diliper biye kar SOngge re? Dilip’s wedding who with RE ‘Who is Dilip getting married to?’ b. *golmaler jonne ke re dayi? trouble for who RE responsible 5. *ke re golmaler jonne dayi? trouble for responsible who RE who RE trouble for responsible d. golmaler jonne ke dayi re? trouble for who responsible RE ‘Who is responsible for the trouble?’ b. In this presentation, we examine Modul-ZCC interaction in (i) property ZCCs, (ii) event ZCCs, (iii) conjunctival ZCCs: 4. kEno go/re TiToda rag korechen? why GO/RE Tito.Senior angry is.3Hon? ‘Why is Tito angry?’ Dasgupta (2014) also noted that zero copula constructions (ZCCs), showing no overt agreement, can license a Modul, but did not explore them. The verb in (3), where the Neu/Intim Modul invokes a Neu/Intim addressee, agrees with a non-addressee argument and is Hon: 3. Eka-Eka kEno go boSe acho/ kEno re boSe achiS? alone why GO sitting are.2Neu/ why RE sitting are.2Intim? Free translation for (1) and (2): ‘Why are you sitting (there) alone?’ Earlier work (Dasgupta 2014) also observes that addressee intimacy level marking need not be present in the clause to license a Modul. Eka-Eka kEno boSe acho go/ achiS re? alone why sitting are.2Neu GO/ are.2Intim RE? 2. A Modul like go or re (oriented to a Neu or an Intim addressee respectively) appears to the right of a root sentence finite verb as in (1) or of a ‘compact’ wh phrase – an ad hoc descriptive label for size-constrained wh phrases – as in (2): 1. The Bangla syntax literature has been using the term Modulator for an Intimacy Oriented DiP category.
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