University lessons of English language
University lessons of English language
Thursday, October 13, 2011
What is an emphasis marker?
What is an emphasis marker?
Definition
An emphasis marker is a word or affix that expresses a
speaker
's stress upon the
predicate
of a sentence.
Example (Vietnamese)
In the following sentence,
co
is an emphasis marker (diacritical markings have not been included here):
on ba co xem quyen truyen ay
Mr. Ba EMPHASIS read book story that
‘Mr. Ba did read that novel.’
Generic
An emphasis marker is a kind of
What is a word?
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