Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation
by Luke, K. K.
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 o…
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- Full title :Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation.
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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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- Publication Date:1990.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1990.
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- Description:1 online resource (345 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027283320, 902728332X, 9789027250193, 9027250197
- oclc:ocn741492874
- LC Classification:PL1733
- Dewey Decimal:495.17
Table of Contents
UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE CONVERSATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Transcriptionand Glossing Conventions; Romanization Conventions; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION : UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE; CHAPTER 2. CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 3. The Establishment of Common Ground in Conversation: the Utterance Particle LA; CHAPTER 4. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ENDINGS IN CONVERSATION: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE LO; CHAPTER 5. EXPECTATION AND NOTEWORTHINESS: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE WO.
Chapter 6. utterance particles as conversational objectschapter 7. towards a socially constituted linguistics; notes; bibliography; subject index.
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