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Representing an issue as open: Mandarin discourse particle "ba"
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The Mandarin sentence final particle ba has been described as expressing un- certainty or soliciting agreement in declaratives (‘weakening’ an assertion, Han 1995, Li 2006 a.o.). However, unlike English ‘weakeners’ like final rises or epistemic modals, ba in interrogatives appears to ‘strengthen’ a question to a demand: “you must answer this question”. This is sometimes taken to show how discourse…
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