On and off the common ground: Japanese final particles as (un)grounding devices

Modeling the Common Ground for Discourse Particles

German modal or discourse particles make a contribution to the illocutionary force of an utterance. In this paper we integrate a model of belief sets held as part of the Common Ground into the Abstract Knowledge Representation (AKR) component of the German ParGram grammar. We follow recent accounts that divide the Common Ground into individual belief state sets for each of the discourse partici...

Constraining Interpretation: Sentence Final Particles in Japanese

CONSTRAINING INTERPRETATION: SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLES IN JAPANESE

CCG of Japanese Sentence-final Particles

vs. Aim To provide formalization of Japanese sentence-final particles in the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) (Steedman 1996, 2000, Szabolcsi 1987). Proposal I analyze particles such as yo and ne as verum focus operators (Höhle 1992, Romero & Han 2004). Previous Work There has not been much formal descriptions of these sentence-final particles so far. • Masuoka & Takubo (1992) ...

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...

On Coordination and the Common Ground