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Publication details [#30181]

Müller-Gotama, Franz. 1996. Topic and focus in Sudanese. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (1) : 117–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | information structure | markedness | particle | pragmatic function

Language as a subject

Sundanese

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper on the grammatical treatment of information in Sundanese, shows that three particles, MAH, TEH and TEA, quite different in syntactic behavior and text distribution, serve the single function of marking pragmatic roles.