Japanese continuative conjunction ga as a semantic boundary marker

Language and Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-106

  Fukushima, Tatsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjunction ga; Discourse analysis; Discourse connective; Japanese; Political communication; Variation analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244235427     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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