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From additivity to mirativity: The Cantonese sentence final particle tim1
Glossa, 2018 This paper studies the Cantonese sentence final particle tim1 and more generally the semantics of additive particles. The range of meanings conveyed by tim1 appears quite broad, covering both scalar and non-scalar additive readings as well as mirative ...
Daniel Tsz-Hin Lee +3 more
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Searching for insubordination: An analysis of ləbo in Lamaholot [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we present a description and analysis of ləbo ‘although’ in Lamaholot of eastern Indonesia, which is a subordinating conjunction that expresses a concessive relation between main and subordinate clauses.
Nagaya, Naonori
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC UNITS ‘ADVERB’ IN ARABIC AND IN PERSIAN AND ENGLISH [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 This article is based on a doctoral dissertation and compares syntactic characteristics of linguistic units that modify verb (adverbial) as well as adjective in Arabic on one hand and adverbial in Persian and English languages on the other.
Mohammad Shokri +2 more
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Syntactic analyses of discourse particles through the microvariation of Basque ote
Glossa, 2020 In this article I look into dialectal data related to Basque discourse particles and I provide evidence that topics discussed in the literature on discourse particles can also be addressed within Basque microvariation.
Sergio Monforte
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EVALUATING THE PRAGMATIC PARTICLE JÂ’ IN A MADURESE SPOKEN CORPUS
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018 In verbal interaction and communication, speakers often employ communicative signals; verbal or non-verbal, special words or phrases, which can be regarded as pragmatic markers (Fraser, 1996; Foolen 2011).
Irham Irham
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2016 On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads in the ...
Kayne Richard S.
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Sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese
, 2022 Abstract Sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese realize the heads of three projections in the rigidly ordered head-final CP ‘Low CP < ForceP < AttitudeP’. Only the highest projection AttitudeP encodes discourse-related properties, whereas ForceP encodes the sentence-type (interrogative, imperative).
Waltraud Paul, Shanshan Yan
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Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2017 The paper discusses the universality of the final-over-final condition (FOFC). It has been proposed that sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese may invalidate the universality of FOFC.
Liao Wei-wen Roger
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Le «segmentateur» fa-(’inna) en arabe classique et moderne
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2006 Fa- is generally described as a connective particle and, when linked to ’inna, as the equivalent of the French car, the Italian giacché, the German denn or the English for.
Pierre Larcher
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2018 Erlewine (2017) suggests that certain sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese such as “sentential le” and eryi are located lower than the C-domain, using a number of arguments relating to the scopal interaction of these SFPs, subjects, and ...
Pan Victor Junnan
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