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Gibbons, John. 1980. A tentative framework for speech act description of the utterance particle in conversational Cantonese. Linguistics 18 (9-10) : 763–775.
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Article in journal
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English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This article is a preliminary attempt at a speech act analysis of the utterance particle in conversational Cantonese. The utterance particle is a morpheme found at the end of most utterances in conversational Cantonese. It can loosely be described as a surface marker of the function of the utterance.