Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects
Edited by Xabier Artiagoitia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 276] 2022. vi, 258 pp.
Sergio Monforte
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sergio Monforte plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2022 Introduction: Discourse particles: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects, Artiagoitia, Xabier, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 2. On the pragmatic development of modal particles in Navarrese-Lapurdian Basque: Hori emain ote nauzu?1 Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena, Haselow, Alexander and Sylvie Hancil (eds.), pp. 57–76 | Chapter
The grammaticalisation of modal particles has mainly been focused on their source and historical development. This article deals with the ongoing pragmatic extension of the epistemic particle ote in the Navarrese-Lapurdian dialect. When used in questions, this particle has traditionally expressed… read more
2020 Chapter 11. Modal particles in Basque: Two cases of interaction between ote and information structure Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles, Modicom, Pierre-Yves and Olivier Duplâtre (eds.), pp. 277–300 | Chapter
The interaction between modal particles and information structure has received no attention within Basque linguistics. Although the standard behaviour of modal particles in Basque shows, no connection with information structure, in this article I present two dialectal uses only found in Eastern… read more
2019 Basque question particles: Implications for a syntax of discourse particles Linguistic Variation 19:2, pp. 352–385 | Article
In this paper, we focus on the syntax of question particles in Basque and provide an account that draws new parallels between the syntactic behavior of discourse particles in Basque and some recent findings that have been reported for the German language, perhaps the most studied language of all… read more