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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/45238

Mongolian Particles mini, cini, ni, cü, le, and bol : from the Viewpoint of toritate

日本語

2011-03-25

Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Northern Language Studies

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165-184

This paper concerns six particles mini, cini, ni, cü, le, and bol, which are used frequently in modern Mongolian. In previous descriptions, these particles have been treated separately and regarded, without sufficient evidence, as markers with various functions such as subject, topic, focus, contrast etc. The author first points out common syntactic and pragmatic features of these particles, and then tries to unify them from the viewpoint of Japanese toritate particles. The function of toritate seems not to be fully defined, but relates to stand out a sentence element with implying some modal meaning. The present paper is, therefore, a preliminary attempt to analyze these Mongolian particles by contrast with Japanese toritate particles.

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