Publications
Publication details [#12172]
Lee-Wong, Song Mei. 2001. Coherence, focus and structure: The role of discourse particle NE. Pragmatics 11 (2) : 139–153. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
coherence | comment | connectivity | contrastiveness | emphasis1 | focus | particle | relevance | topic change
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
A study of the usage of the Chinese particle NE: linguistically, it functions as a grammatical connector, from a cognitive viewpoint, it motions topic shift and new, contrastive information.