Based on data obtained from Cantonese corpora and interactions in everyday contexts, this
paper identifies and analyzes the range of pragmatic functions that the interrogative pronoun …

It is argued in this paper that a sentence should consist of at least three layers, namely
proposition, grounding, and response, which are formed by a number of functional …

This paper attempts to extend the investigation of Cantonese sentence final particles (SFPs),
and explore in particular their roles and functions in modulating the speaker's epistemic …

Demonstrative forms in Cebuano are highly versatile and, as often seen crosslinguistically,
can serve discourse deictic, discourse marking, and placeholding functions. Some of the …

The connection between (inter) subjectification and movement to peripheral positions of a
clause is investigated using diachronic data on the Chinese pragmatic marker bushi. This …

Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-
periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese. These include both sentence …

The present paper presents a descriptive and analytical account of the various functions of
the morpheme ko in Miluo, a Xiang variety of Chinese. This morpheme is used as a …

This study discusses the origin and development of the question particle me1 in Cantonese.
An examination of the materials written in Cantonese between 1828 and 1955 reveals two …

This paper attempts to extend the investigation of Cantonese sentence final particles (SFPs),
and explore in particular their roles and functions in modulating the speaker's epistemic …

In present-day colloquial Japanese, daro (o)/desho (o), the conjectural forms of the copulas
that are agglutinated to at the right periphery (RP) of the clause, are detached from the …