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Publication details [#39039]

Ebert, Karen H. 1987. Grammatical marking of speech act participants in Tibeto-Burman. Journal of Pragmatics 11 (4) : 473–482.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

marking | pragmatics | speech act

Language as a subject

Tibeto-Burman

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article demonstrates how Tibeto-Burman languages, and in particular Tangut, Jyarong and Chamling mark the pragmatic category of speech act participation in the syntactic structure of a sentence.