Hooi Ling Soh's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
We present an analysis of parenthetical uses of the English expression I'm telling you as a discourse particle, i.e., an expression that conveys information about the epistemic states of discourse participants with respect to the propositional content of an utterance (Zimmermann 2011). The analysis connects I’m telling you to other discourse partic...
In this paper, I present new empirical observations regarding discourse restrictions and interpretative effects associated with Mandarin Chinese sentence final de in a bare de sentence. I propose an analysis of de as a discourse marker that marks “private evidence”. I then consider a prediction of the analysis regarding the distribution of de in ye...
Citations
... A crucial issue concerning Li et al. (1998), however, is that it does not provide a worked-out definition towards affirmative mood and being emphatic, and thus does not make evident why and how de is affirmative and emphatic. Soh (2018) also holds that sentence-final de marks evidentiality. The felicity of the use of de, according to Soh (2018), depends on two factors: (i) whether or not the evidence for the asserted proposition is shared between the speaker and the addressee; and (ii) whether the evidence is readily available in the utterance context. ...
