Emph: Emphasis
| Values: | Yes |
Emph intensifies the expression by suggesting a contrast or giving weight to a certain word. In Teko, it is marked with suffixes -eʔe (after a cosonant)/-ʔe (after a vowel), -õwã/-ũwã (lit. ‘a little’).
Yes: Yes
Examples
- aŋeʔe aŋ pazaru “And here is some cashiri.”
- oɨruanẽʔe oiɲuŋoŋ “They wear clothes.”
- sidʒapɨakaõwãʃã ikotɨ “Let’s think of him a little.”
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Emph in other languages: [arr] [cs] [eme] [fr] [gn] [gub] [tpn] [xav]