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Also, Too And Moreover In A Novel By Dorothy L. Sayers, Stephen H. Levinsohn
Also, Too And Moreover In A Novel By Dorothy L. Sayers, Stephen H. Levinsohn
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
When Dorothy Sayers uses also in her novel The Documents in the Case, this indicates that the material that is added is at least as important as that to which it is added. She uses moreover, as Blakemore (1987) has observed, to indicate that the material that is added provides further evidence for a recently stated conclusion. Too is the 'elsewhere' additive. Sayers uses it when the information that is added confirms or contradicts a previous utterance or assumption. She also uses it when the material concerned is of lesser or greater importance than that to which it …
A Synopsis Of Bora Tone, David J. Weber, Wesley Thiesen
A Synopsis Of Bora Tone, David J. Weber, Wesley Thiesen
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
The tonal system of Bora, a Witotoan language of Colombia and Peru, has high and low tones. Most tonal phenomena refer to low—not high—tone. For example, virtually all lexically marked tones are low. Further, many suffixes assign low tones to preceding syllables, but never creating a sequence of adjacent low tones. This is modeled with the cyclical addition of suffixes where adjacent low tones are avoided by either blocking the placement of the suffix's low tone or by delinking a previously assigned low tone. Finally, low tone plays a role in various syntactic constructions.