Abstract:This study aims to address the following question: what are the licensing conditions for the Urdu/Hindi polar question particle kya's multiple concept selection behaviour? More specifically, what is the nature of contexts in which kya contributes both interrogative and mirative meanings, and how can such a phenomenon be characterized in terms of cognitive semantic compositional processes? To address this research question, the present study uses the Lexical Concept and Cognitive Model (Evans, 2009) as its theo… Show more
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