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The Silence of Heads

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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Reflecting a Speaker’s Feeling of Exasperation: The Case of the Cantonese Sentence-Final Particle lo1 [PDF]

, 2023
This paper analyzes the frequency distribution of the Cantonese sentence-final particle lo1 in a set of YouTube videos. Studies of the sentence-final particle lo1 in terms of its semantic and pragmatic functions have been well documented.
Law, Ka Fai
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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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Sentence-final particles in Mandarin

, 2021
This thesis, based on corpus data, investigates eight sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese (de, le, ne1, ne2, ba, ma, a and ou) within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar. The focus is on the individual particles le, ba, ne1 on the one hand, and on the sequential ordering of the aforementioned eight particles on the other.
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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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A Developmental Study on the Acquisition of Japanese Sentence-Final Particle “no” and “n” in Hiroshima Dialect Speaker [PDF]

, 2015
Japanese sentence-final particles express the speaker’s various intellectual and mental attitudes. In this paper, the following points are clarified about the acquisition of Japanese sentence-final particle “no (common language form)” and “n (Hiroshima ...
Itoh, Masako, Nagata, Riyouta
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Derivation of the Apparent Narrow Scope of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese: A Reply to Erlewine (2017)

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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An Analysis of Japanese Sentence-final Particle Yone: Compare Yone and Ne in Response [PDF]

, 2021
Yone, a Japanese sentence-final particle (SFP), is frequently used in conversation, and some functions overlap with ne, another SFP. However, not much discussion has taken place about their differences.
Xu, Jun
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On the Interaction between Japanese Sentence-final Particle wa and Fundamental Frequency: A Characterological Perspective [PDF]

, 2022
Historically, Japanese sentence-final particle wa has been ascribed predominantly to female speakers, and as a result, it has developed a tendency to serve as a kind of exemplar of women's language in general.
Dahlberg-Dodd, Hannah E.
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Allora as an Italian discourse particle

Linguistik Online
This article investigates the use of allora as an Italian discourse particle establishing a parallel with the German modal particle denn: both elements can namely be used in interrogative contexts to link the question in which they appear to the context
Marta Massaia
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