Interjection Interrogative Sentencesin Shaoyang Dialect in Hu'nan Province
Interjections in Shaoyang dialect,i.e.[li(˫)]嚟,[lan(˫)]喃,[lau(˫)]呶,[aŋ(˫)]映and[xa(˫)]哈,can function as an interrogative sentence.Their main function is to constitute a tag question following the preceding declarative,imperative and exclamative sentences,etc.They can also be cliticized and therefore affixed or fused with the final syllables of the preceding sentence,thus to perform the very function of sentence-final particles.
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