What is an emphasis marker?

Definition
	An emphasis marker is a word or affix that expresses a speaker's stress upon the predicate of a sentence.

Example (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.’

Generic
	An emphasis marker is a kind of
	What is a word?

Source
	Schachter 1985 56

Context for this page:

Concept module: emphasis marker
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): E
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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