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Publication details [#23349]
Kwong, Luke Kang. 1989. The Cantonese utterance particle LA and the accomplishment of common understanding in conversation. Papers in Pragmatics 3 (1) : 39–87. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal DOI
10.1075/iprapip
Annotation
K discusses the use of the particle LA in Cantonese in the light of 'in-between' shared knowledge, i.e. speakers design their utterance in such a way as to present the referent as known, although this is not necessarily a certainty.