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.’
Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.