Publications

Publication details [#3525]

Fretheim, Thorstein. 1980. The Norwegian tag particle 'sa'. An investigation of suprasentential syntactic regularities. In Hovdhaugen, Even, ed. The nordic languages and modern linguistics. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics in Oslo 1980. Universitetsforlaget. pp. 263–272.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conventional implicature | particle | state of affairs

Language as a subject

Norwegian

Annotation

F. studies the tag particle 'sa' (lit.='so') of spoken Norwegian (appended to sentence fragments only). The particle is said to imply conventionally that the state of affairs maintained may not be all too evident.