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Publication details [#48597]

Chang, Miao-Hsia. 2008. Discourse and grammaticalization of contrastive markers in Taiwanese Southern Min: A corpus-based study. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (12) : 2114–2149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastiveness | discourse | grammaticalization | pragmatics | semantics1

Language as a subject

Taiwanese, Southern Min

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the semantic–pragmatic functions and syntactic patterning of contrastive markers (Mkoh, tansi, putko and sikong and kisit, koh/iaukoh, tianto and iausi) in Taiwanese Southern Min.