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Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation.

Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be sai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luke, K. K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
Colección:Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. ; vol. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them; namely, LA (la55), LO).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (345 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index.
ISBN:9789027283320
902728332X
9789027250193
9027250197