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Mirativity in Mandarin: The Sentence-Final Particle Le (了) [PDF]
Open Linguistics, 2018 Mirativity is a distinct grammatical category. In the literature, no mirative marker has been identified so far in Mandarin Chinese. This paper aims to argue that Mandarin Chinese is a language that has grammatical means of expressing mirativity.
Fang Hongmei
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Positive cross-linguistic influence in the representation and processing of sentence-final particle le by L2 and heritage learners of Chinese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study investigates the representation and processing of written Chinese sentences subject to a semantic condition (i.e., “direction of change”) attached to the sentence-final particle (SFP) le in Mandarin Chinese.
Shanshan Yan, Ziyin Mai, Yang Zhao
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A mitigator in Mandarin: the sentence-final particle ba (吧)
Open Linguistics, 2020 It has been widely claimed in the literature that the sentence-final particle ba in Mandarin Chinese is a modal element. This article argues against this claim and shows that ba is an element that has a unified mitigating function with scope over the ...
Fang Hongmei, Hengeveld Kees
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Languages, 2023 Japanese society’s traditional gender norms are reflected by sentence-final particles (SFPs) in daily conversation. However, recently, Japanese young people have started to use gendered SFPs in “unclassical” ways.
Yan Wang
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A Critical Analysis of Persian Manuals of Writing and Editing (Case Study: Punctuation Marks) [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2022 As the Iranian printing industry entered its modern era in the 1950s, manuals of style began to flourish with sets of writing and editing guidelines for correct punctuation and text formatting. Over time, the writing symbols have increased in number, and
Ali Akbar Ahmadi Darani +1 more
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Perfect Construction in Persian within the Framework of Distributed Morphology [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 : Within the non-lexicalist framework of Distributed Morphology (DM), proposed in the early 1990’s by Halle and Marantz, there is no pre-syntactic generative lexicon in which words are derived and all morphosyntactic elements are subject to competition ...
Mazdak Anosheh
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Studia Linguistica, 2022 AbstractMandarin Chinese is rich in sentence‐final particles, which have to follow a rigid linear order when they cluster. In much of the literature, researchers focus on clarifying the functions of individual particles, with less attention being paid to the explanations of their highly restricted order.
Hongmei Fang, Kees Hengeveld
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Heliyon, 2023 To address the controversy on cognitive resources sharedness between language and music in semantic processing, two experiments were conducted via the interference paradigm using the Event-Related Potential (ERP) technique.
Xing Wang +5 more
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Languages, 2020 This study investigates how syntactic and discourse features of Chinese sentence-final particles (the question particle ba and the suggestion particle ba) are reconfigured in Chinese heritage grammars.
Shanshan Yan
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Glossa, 2023 As opposed to syntactic operations (such as Merge), morphology has been seen as the source of language variation. But few attempts have been made in the field of Distributed Morphology to explicitly and formally identify the role of postsyntactic rules ...
Akitaka Yamada
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