Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Emphasis Marker

Definition: 

An emphasis marker is a word or affix that expresses a speaker's stress upon the predicate of a sentence.

Examples: 

(Vietnamese)

In the following sentence, co is an emphasis marker (diacritical markings have not been included here):

  • on ba co xem quyen truyen ay
  • Mr. Ba EMPHASIS read book story that
  • ‘Mr. Ba did read that novel.’

 

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