Rhetorical Questions in Papuan Malay, Other Malayic Languages, and the Papuan Languages of West Papua
This paper presents a descriptive and typological study of rhetorical questions. The first part describes the form and functions of rhetorical questions in Papuan Malay. There are no formal characteristics that mark Papuan Malay rhetorical questions. Instead, the context indicates whether a question...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |
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| Online Access: | https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/52431 |