Publications

Publication details [#7462]

Pavlidou, Theodossia. 1980. Zur Rolle einiger Modalpartikeln bei der Problematisierung von Handlungen. In Tschauder, Gerhard and Edda Weigand, eds. Perspektive: Textextern. Akten des 14. Linguistischen Kolloquiums Bochum 1979, Band 2. M. Niemeyer. pp. 107–116.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

modal particle | why-question

Language as a subject

German | Greek, Modern

Annotation

Treats the German particle 'denn' and its Greek equivalent in 'warum' ('why') questions and other speech acts that demand a reason for an action proposed by a speaker.