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Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II: Southeast Asia book cover

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Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II Southeast Asia

Edited By Hiroki Nomoto, Elin McCready Copyright 2024
278 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume is the second in a two-part collection 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. Despite increasing interest in discourse particles, most research in the area (particularly within formal semantics and pragmatics) focuses on a restricted set of languages, and there... Read more

1 Tagalog pala : an unsurprising case of mirativity

SCOTT ANDERBOIS

2 Discourse particles in Tagalog: the case of e

NAONORI NAGAYA

3 A Kimaragang status particle: accessible information

PAUL R. KROEGER

4 A syntactic universal in a contact language: the story of Singlish already

MICHAEL YOSHITAKA ERLEWINE

5 On the discourse marker dah in Colloquial Malay (and sudah in Sabah Malay)

HOOI LING SOH

6 On the apparently non-additive use of Malay additive pun

HIROKI NOMOTO

7 A unifi ed analysis of (some) discourse particles in Thai

UPSORN TAWILAPAKUL AND ELIN MCCREADY

8 Interpersonal uses of the pragmatic particle /kɔ̂ɔ/ in Thai conversation

KIYOKO TAKAHASHI

9 A scalar semantics for the Vietnamese sentence-final particle cơ

ANNE NGUYEN

10 Syntax-information structure interface in Vietnamese

THUAN TRAN

Biography

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

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

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