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The syntactic processing of particles in Japanese spoken language [PDF]
, 1999 Particles fullfill several distinct central roles in the Japanese language. They can mark arguments as well as adjuncts, can be functional or have semantic funtions. There is, however, no straightforward matching from particles to functions, as, e.g., GA
Siegel, Melanie
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Abstract structures for moods in Greek [PDF]
, 1970 It is my intention to make two major points in this paper: 1. The first has to do with finding a frame within which the modal expressions of one particular Ancient IE [Indoeuropean] language – I have chosen Classical Greek – can be best described.
Seiler, Hansjakob
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West Flemish verb-based discourse markers and the articulation of the Speech Act layer [PDF]
, 2014 This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the discourse markers ne and we.
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Focus strategies in chadic : the case of tangale revisited [PDF]
, 2007 We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under ...
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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Emergence phenomena in German W-immer/auch-subordinators [PDF]
, 2018 The present study is concerned with the distributional patterns of the irrelevance particles immer ‘ever’ and auch ‘also’ in German universal concessive conditionals and free relatives (e.g. was immer er auch sagt ‘whatever he says’). Whereas irrelevance
Bossuyt, Tom +2 more
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Thai Sentence-Final Imperative Discourse Particles
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022 The Thai imperative discourse particles include sì, ná, nâa, tɤ̀, nɔ̀i, and dâi. The distribution of these imperative discourse particles depends on the illocutionary forces and Searlean felicity conditions that constitute the forces. sì and tɤ̀ appear in a wide range of illocutionary forces but in a complementary distribution.
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Translation: an example from ancient Chinese to modern Chinese [PDF]
, 2002 In this paper, we gave an idea of translation by means of knowledge graph theory from ancient Chinese to modern Chinese, by using an example story. Actually, we give the details of the method of translation from ancient Chinese to modern Chinese step by ...
Hoede, C., Liu, X.
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The Vietnamese Polyfunctional Marker Mà as a Generalized Linker: A Multilevel Approach
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2019 The main aim of this paper is to illustrate the notions of polyfunctionality and transcategoriality as described in Robert (2003, 2004) through the case study of the marker mà in modern Vietnamese.
Danh ThànhDo-Hurinville, Huy Linh Dao
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Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2022 The Japanese language is known for its sentence-final particles (SFPs hereafter) that express modality. Although modality would seem to be inseparable from context, only a limited number of studies have explicated the nature of SFPs based on data from conversations.
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, 2013 Im Kikuyu, einer in Kenia gesprochenen Bantusprache, wird Fokus systematisch durch Wortstellung markiert. In dieser Arbeit werden die verschiedenen Varianten der Markierung von Fokus in Frage-Antwortsequenzen dargestellt. Nach einem Überblick über in der
Schwarz, Florian
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