PART: particle
Definition
Particles are function words that must be associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning and that do not satisfy definitions of other universal parts of speech (e.g. adpositions, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions or auxiliary verbs). Particles may encode grammatical categories such as negation. In Khoekhoe particles are not inflected.
Examples
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Quotation marker ti
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Nominalizer =s before the adverb tsîn(a) “also”
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Negation particle tama
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Emphatic markers (e.g. kha emphatic interrogative marker)
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Negative tag question particle tama-e
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Temporal genitive linker kam
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