Discourse Particles in Asian Languages

ISBN-13: 9781032547589 / Mixed media product / 2023 / 472 str.

Opis

There are two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Spis treści

Vol 1: 1 On the mirative use of the no (da) construction in Japanese 2 Evidentiality, inference, conclusion: Japanese no as a particle and complementizer 3 Mandarin Chinese sentence final de as a marker of private evidence 4 How are contrasts marked?—The case of ne in in Mandarin Chinese 5 Cantonese question particles 6 Softness, assertiveness and their expression via Cantonese sentence final particles 7 Formality weakening and the underspecified expressive yo in Korean Vol 2: 1 Tagalog pala: An unsurprising case of mirativity 2 Discourse particles in Tagalog: The case of e 3 A Kimaragang status particle: Accessible information 4 A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already 5 On the discourse marker dah in Colloquial Malay (and sudah in Sabah Malay) 6 On the apparently non-additive use of Malay additive pun 7 A unified analysis of (some) discourse particles in Thai 8 Interpersonal uses of the pragmatic particle /kɔ̂ɔ/ in Thai conversation 9 A scalar semantics for the Vietnamese sentence-final particle cõ 10 Syntax-information structure interface in Vietnamese

O autorze

Elin McCready is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.

Hiroki Nomoto is Associate Professor of Malay Language and Linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.