Abstract This article gives a first account of the background marker ná in Barayin, an East Chadic language spoken in the Guera region of Chad. The article describes the marker’s syntactic distribution and the semantic and pragmatic contexts it occurs in. It commonly occurs following a sentence-initial noun phrase or adverbial, and it also commonly follows a sentence-initial dependent clause such as a conditional clause. The material preceding ná is background information which provides a context for the interpretation of the following proposition, which is the main point of the communication.

中文翻译：

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Barayin中的背景标记ná

摘要本文首先介绍了巴拉伊语中的背景标记ná，巴拉伊语是乍得的瓜拉地区所使用的一种东乍得语。本文介绍了标记的句法分布以及它所处的语义和语用语境。它通常在句子初始名词短语或副词之后出现，还通常在句子初始相关从句（例如条件句）之后出现。ná之前的材料是背景信息，为后续命题的解释提供了背景，这是交流的重点。