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Sentence -Final Particles as Attitude Markers in Mandarin Chinese
Chinese sentence-final particles have no denotations (truth-conditional meanings) and thus do not affect the truth condition of the sentences. Therefore, they cannot be treated in truth-conditional semantics. Although their co-occurrence with certain constructions is not random, rules of syntax …
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On the Formal Flexibility of Syntactic Categories
… on modifier-head compounds and the other on sentence-final particles. Chapter 4 examines another special type of category defined by the absence of a mergeme, the Root category. Deductive reasoning leads me to propose a generalized root syntax, according to which roots are not confined to …