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Publication details [#53355]
Keevallik, Leelo. 2010. Marking Boundaries Between Activities: The Particle nii in Estonian. Research on Language and Social Interaction 43 (1) : 157–182. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper discusses how the Estonian pragmatic particle 'nii' is used to mark transitions to a next activity in interaction and argues that the marked boundaries are multimodal in nature.