Following the elision of parentheticals and other expressions, functional homonymy arises: a particle/a different part of speech (most commonly an adverb). This results in an uncertainty regarding the status of particles. The understanding of particles as parts of...
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over Likert scale experiments, in particular the issues of how to treat acceptability judgment data (as ordinal or interval) and what statistical model is appropriate to apply. We analyze empirical data on native speakers' intuitions regarding marginal cha...
Modal particles can be used by itself or with different tones and parts of speech to indicate different moods. Compared to some languages (i.e. Indo-European languages), modal particles are one of the unique components of the Chinese language. For people who are learning Mandarin Chinese, moda...
This would make the particle part of the verb as opposed to another part of speech such as an adverb or a preposition. For example: Why would you try to bring ice to an Eskimo? (bring = to carry, convey) Why would you try to bring up ice to an Eskimo? (bring up = verb with ...
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Languages have several grammatical means of expressing the relation between speaker and addressee, including speech-style particles, politeness pronouns, allocutive marking, and honorifics. Despite the similarity in the meaning they conv... P Portner,M Pak,R Zanuttini - 《Language》 被引量: 0发表...
1.Chinese modal particle has no equivalent part of speech in English.英语中没有相当于汉语语气词的词类。 2.The Study of Chaghatay s Function Words;察哈台维吾尔语虚词研究(后置词、连词、语气词) 3.The cnomatopoeic words,exclamatory and modal words are all imitative of words论拟声词、叹词、语气...
(typesandtokensalike)of“particles”inspeech:Themanyoccurrencesofwell, oh,let’sseeandothersareatypicaldialoguephenomenon.Atfirstsight,theyseem tobeinnocentlittlewordsthatcontributelittletothepropositionalinformation conveyed;however,theydoplayimportantrolesinsteeringtheflowofthedialogue ...
It’s also the particle used to indicate a direct quote (from someone’s mind or speech), functioning like quotation marks in English. Formation Noun + to (と) + Noun Example 肉と 魚が好きです。 Niku to sakana ga suki desu. I like meat and fish....
Towards a grammar of Innu-aimun particles analysis, particles are classified into the following more specific part-of-speech categories: adnominal particles (adjectives and quantifiers), prepositions, adverbs, focus particles, question particles, negators, conjunctions, and interjections... W Oxford 被...