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Intonation and Particles as Speech Act Modifiers: A Syntactic Analysis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2470-8275 | Journal ISSN: 1017-1274
Language: English
Page range: 109 - 129
Submitted on: Feb 23, 2015
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Accepted on: Jun 22, 2016
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Published on: Dec 30, 2016
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2016 Johannes Heim, Hermann Keupdjio, Zoe Wai-Man Lam, Adriana Osa-Gómez, Sonja Thoma, Martina Wiltschko, published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
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