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Native speaker incompetence

On sentence-initial interrogative particles, I said: This is unusual among Indo-European languages in Europe, Latvian being another exception. forgetting the example I knew fine from my native Lothian Region (as it was at the time), “eh”. I don’t recall seeing … Continue reading

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Sentence initial interrogative particle

I’ve only just noticed that Catalan has a sentence-initial interrogative particle, que. This is unusual among Indo-European languages in Europe, Latvian being another exception. In the Latvian case I’d assumed it was due to a Livonian substrate, like Estonian kas. … Continue reading

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