Tsuu khaa tii hla?: deixis, demonstratives and discourse particles in Lai Chin

This paper is an investigation of the use of a class of deictic particles in Lai Chin. The particles tsuu, khaa, hii, and khii have a wide variety of uses; they can be appended to nouns, phrases and clauses as discourse particles with various meanings; they also function as demonstratives, and occur...

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Main Author: Barnes, Jonathan
Other Authors: University of California, Berkeley
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178152