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