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Research seminar

Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviour in L2 and heritage Chinese grammars

24 February 2017, 16:00 – 18:00

Room 7, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Sentence-final particles occur at the end of sentences in Chinese. These particles carry various features (e.g. semantic, syntactic and discourse features) to behave functionally in sentences. In this presentation, features attached to eight sentence-final particles will be analysed from a cross-linguistic perspective to exemplify their differences and similarities in Chinese and English. An empirical study including both on-line and off-line methods was conducted to investigate theoretical hypotheses from the linguistic comparisons. Results from the study concerning these particles will be shown in the current presentation as well. The findings will be discussed and concluded from both a linguistic and second/heritage language acquisition perspective.


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Organiser:

Ruyi Dai

Speakers:
Shanshan Yan
When:

16:00 - 18:00

Venue:

Room 7
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA

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Contact Email:
rd486@cam.ac.uk
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