Table of contents
Introduction: Discourse particles: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects
1
Part I.Diachronic issues and the development of discourse particles
11
Chapter 1.On the adverbial origin of German modal particles
13
Chapter 2.A particle-like use of hwæþer Wisdom’s questions in Boethius
41
Chapter 3.The discourse particle es que in Spanish and in other Iberian languages
65
Part II.Syntactic analyses of discourse particles
99
Chapter 4.Agreeing complementizers may just be moody
101
Chapter 5.Outer particles vs tag particles: A distinction in homophony
131
Chapter 6.Anchoring primary and secondary interjections to the context
157
Chapter 7.Sentence-final particles in mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics and acquisition
179
Part III.The semantic-pragmatics of discourse particles
207
Chapter 8.Meaning and use of the Basque particle bide
209
Chapter 9.Three German discourse particles as speech act modifiers
229
Language index
255
Subject index
257
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