A mitigator in Mandarin: the sentence-final particle ba (吧)
It has been widely claimed in the literature that the sentence-final particle ba in Mandarin Chinese is a modal element. This article argues against this claim and shows that ba is an element that has a unified mitigating function with scope over the utterance as a whole. Using the framework of Func...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0018 |