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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1990.
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| Series: | Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. ;
vol. 9. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283320 902728332X 9789027250193 9027250197 |