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Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese (2023)
Thesis
Xue, L. Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The meanings of Mandarin adverbs often display a chameleonic nature. Some of them, like propositional connectives, are used as Boolean operators and can be readily translated as such in a logical way. However, in the specific conversational context,... Read More about Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese.

Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts (2022)
Thesis
Cairangsanzhou, T. S. Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Historical Pragmatics is uncharted territory in Old Tibetan studies. This dissertation explores pragmatics in the Old Tibetan (8th to 11th centuries) as a language represented in texts discovered in Cave 17 in Dunhuang. This dissertation attempts to... Read More about Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts.

A corpus-based account of morphosyntactic evidentiality in discourse in Chhitkul-Rākchham (2021)
Thesis
Martinez, P. A. A corpus-based account of morphosyntactic evidentiality in discourse in Chhitkul-Rākchham. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Chhitkul-Rākchham is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodic branch spoken in Northern India. Evidentiality is expressed by means of a range of morphosyntactic devices: copulas, auxiliaries, suffixes, clitics, particles and converb constructions. Chapt... Read More about A corpus-based account of morphosyntactic evidentiality in discourse in Chhitkul-Rākchham.