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Publication details [#65684]
Zheng, Wuxi. 2019. Polyfunction derived from fillers: The case of làmò in Longxi Qiang. Journal of Pragmatics 139 : 79–96.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Filler in Longxi Qiang has evolved uses of focus marker and discourse marker. These three functions propose diverse syntactic, semantic and discourse traits. A linguistic form làmò may produce implicature. Hearers can derive speakers's communication intent from it. Crosslinguistically, particle ne in sentence-intermediate position in Mandarin Chinese has similar discourse marker function with làmò in Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language.