On the scalar antonymy of only and even

Y Greenberg - Natural Language Semantics, 2022 - Springer
An old observation about the focus sensitive particles only and even is that they are in some
sense scalar antonyms. We examine three schematic proposals raised in the literature to …

[图书][B] Focus manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A comparative perspective

PP Lee - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it
does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, with information structuring formally …

'Until'constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl

J Olguin Martinez - Studies in Language, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most
of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial …

[PDF][PDF] Low boundary tone: Evidence from the acoustic differences between Cantonese sentence-final particles with low-falling tone

JHN Lee - 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation …, 2021 - isca-archive.org
This study investigated the nature of the tones on Cantonese sentence-final particles (SFPs)
with low-falling tone. Four Cantonese SFPs with different intonations were examined: aa4 …

Catalan focus markers as discourse particles

A Trotzke, L Mayol - Journal of Linguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we investigate focus markers in Catalan that can take on discourse-particle
readings. We focus on two Catalan elements that have not been studied from a formal …

Formal Analysis of the Vietnamese Sentence-final Particle Co

NTT Nguyen - 2021 - search.proquest.com
FORMAL ANALYSIS OF THE VIETNAMESE SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLE CƠ by
NGUYEN THI THUY NGUYEN (MA by coursework, National University Page 1 FORMAL …

Softness, assertiveness and their expression via Cantonese sentence-final particles

G Winterstein, R Lai, ZP Luk - Discourse Particles in Asian …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines the linguistic correlates of the notions of assertiveness and softness
in Cantonese. Specifically, it focuses on a set of sentence-final particles often described as …

[PDF][PDF] A Bayesian approach to Argumentation within Language

G Winterstein - 2018 - semanticsarchive.net
This paper addresses the question of the linguistic correlates of argumentation. Studies on
argumentation have discussed normative aspects arguments (ie what should convince vs …

[PDF][PDF] fOn the scalar antonymy of only and even (and what it can teach us about the construction of alternatives)

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[PDF][PDF] fOn the scalar antonymy of only and even (and what it can teach us about the construction of alternatives) Linguistics department colloquium, University of …

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