Table of contents
Introduction.What can information-structural categories tell us about discourse
particles?1
Part I.The contribution of information structural strategies to the rise of
discourse particles
Chapter 1.Discourse particle position and information structure27
Chapter 2.Information-structural properties of is that clauses47
Chapter 3.Kazakh particle ğoj as an existential operator71
Chapter 4.From focus marking to illocutionary modification: Functional developments
of Italian solo ‘only’111
Part II.Information structure as a factor in the interpretation of polysemic and
polyfunctional particles
Chapter 5.Final or medial: Morphosyntactic and functional divergences in discourse
particles of the same historical sources135
Chapter 6.Types and functions of wa-marked DPs and their
structural distribution in a Japanese sentence161
Chapter 7.Is the information-structural contribution of modal particles in the
syntax, in discourse structure, or in both?177
Part III.The contribution of discourse particles to the information-structural
characterization of illocutionary acts
Chapter 8.Discourse particles in thetic judgments, in dependent sentences, and in
non-finite phrases195
Chapter 9.Information structure, null case particle and sentence final discourse
particle223
Chapter 10.The discourse marker hani in Turkish251
Chapter 11.Modal particles in Basque: Two cases of interaction between
ote and information structure277
Language index301
Subject index303
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