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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1990.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (iv, 329 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283320 902728332X |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |