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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Main Author: Luke, K. K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
Series:Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. ; vol. 9.
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