L E P/Miscellaneous function words

Lexical Expansion Project

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self, one's own (B)

"He ate his (someone else's) yerik" vs. "He ate his (own) yerik."

[1] Models are European reflexive pronouns and African logophoric pronouns; looser association w Algonquian "4th person". Perhaps self-GEN vs. lapeyä ?

(informative particle) (B)

Hey, this is good! (informing another that they should try it, vs. eliciting agreement when both are already eating it, which would perhaps be "ko")

like Bavarian "fei" or Japanese "yo", informs the interlocutor that you have new information that is pertinent.[2] Other emotive/discourse particles (spoken punctuation) might also be useful, such as a particle used for "thinking aloud" or parenthetical comments (spoken parentheses) which one does not expect to be answered, unlike "ko" or "fei/yo", which one does expect a response to.