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

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