Definition
An emphasis marker is a word or affix that expresses a speaker's stress upon the predicate of a sentence.
Examples
(Vietnamese)
In the following sentence, co is an emphasis marker (diacritical markings have not been included here):
- on ba co xem quyen truyen ay
- Mr. Ba EMPHASIS read book story that
- ‘Mr. Ba did read that novel.’
Sources 1
- Schachter 1985, 56