Abstract

The article calls attention to the end of a sentence. The end is interesting in that even the strongest end has to be open-ended, to end is for convenience and not to end is always potential. It puts forward three important concepts surrounding the end: the end word, the end space and the regeneration. The end word is the first content word that accomplishes the generation of a sentence; the end space is the paralinguistic space in the form of time following the end word; and the regeneration is the renewal of a sentence that has been sufficiently generated. The regeneration has to happen in the end space. The article demonstrates that great differences lie in the end between languages as exemplified by three major languages, Chinese, English and Japanese. First, one language favors one part of speech while another another part of speech as the end words; second, different languages send different agents into the end space; and third, different agents possess different power of regeneration. These differences have a lot to say about different ways of thinking in languages, and an awareness of them will help deal with cross-lingual barriers.

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