Discourse Particles : : Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics / / ed. by Josef Bayer, Volker Struckmeier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Werner,; Bayer, Josef,; Egg, Markus,; Gutzmann, Daniel,; Gärtner, Hans-Martin,; Junnan Pan, Victor,; Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli,; Lühr, Rosemarie,; Mursell, Johannes,; Müller, Sonja,; Paul, Waltraud,; Petrova, Svetlana,; Scherf, Nathalie,; Struckmeier, Volker,; Viesel, Yvonne,
• HerausgeberIn: Bayer, Josef,; Struckmeier, Volker,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2017
• Anno di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: English
• Serie: Linguistische Arbeiten , 564
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VI, 334 p.)

Particles have for the longest time been ignored by linguistic research. School-type grammars ignored them since they did not fit into pre-conceived notions of categories, and since they did not seem to enter into grammatical relations commonly discussed in the genre. Only in the last century did so...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• The status quo of research on discourse particles in syntax and semantics
• The syntax and semantics of discourse particles
• What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementizers
• The syntax of Swedish modal particles
• Discourse particles and hvað-exclamatives
• Root infinitivals and modal particles. An interim report
• Modal particles ≠ modal particles (= modal particles)
• Discourse particles “embedded”: German ja in adjectival phrases
• Combining ja and doch: A case of discourse structural iconicity
• Discourse marker = discourse particle = thetical = modal particle? A futile comparison
• Stressed and unstressed particles in Old Indic
• On the status and the interpretation of the left-peripheral sentence particles inu and ia in Old High German
• Index