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Additive focus in Sylheti: Description and analysis in a Lexical-Functional Grammar framework

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This paper offers a description of the additive focus marker in Sylheti and proposes an analysis within the Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) framework. It first examines the literature around focus particles, before providing a descriptive account of the Sylheti particle =ɔ, which marks additive focus. Finally, a theoretical account of the particle is proposed within the LFG framework.

Keywords: Sylheti, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Additive focus

How to Cite: Brown, H. (2020) “Additive focus in Sylheti: Description and analysis in a Lexical-Functional Grammar framework”, Language Documentation and Description. 18(0). doi: https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd88