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Publication details [#42628]

Fukushima, Tatsuya. 2005. Japanese continuative conjunction ga as a semantic boundary marker. Language & Communication 25 (1) : 81–106.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | discourse marker | pragmatic function

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper examines the pragmatic and discourse functions of the Japanese continuative conjunction 'ga', and demonstrates that it functions as a discourse marker, indicating semantic boundaries.