TY - JOUR AU - Hartmann, Katharina AU - Zimmermann, Malte PY - 2019/07/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Not only ‘only’, but ‘too’, too: Alternative-sensitive Particles in Bura JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 12 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2008.v12i0.585 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/585 SP - 196-211 AB - <p>This article discusses the syntactic and semantic behaviour of <em>alternative-sensitive</em> <em>particles</em> in Bura (Central-Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), a tone language spoken by about 250.000 speakers in Northeastern Nigeria. The observed findings help to evaluate a number of claims on the syntactic and semantic nature of alternative-sensitive particles, which have been made largely on the basis of European languages.</p> ER -