Discourse Particles

Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German

Editor

Werner Abraham

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This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of modal particles differ vastly from those of the scalar particles, on the one hand, and their homonymic counterparts functioning in different syntactic categories, on the other hand. The contributions to this volume offer the latest research on the semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of particles in the English and German language.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.12

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. vii

Introduction | p. 1

Identical values in conflicting roles: The use of German ausgerechnet, eben, genau and gerade as focus particles | p. 11

Focusing and background operators

Arnim von Stechow | p. 37

Schon — erst — noch: An integrated analysis

Sebastian Löbner | p. 85

On the semantics of modal particles

Joachim Jacobs | p. 141

‘Wir sind ja doch alte bekannte’. The use of German ja and doch als modal particles

Katrin Lindner | p. 163

Discourse particles in German: How does their illocutive force come about?

Werner Abraham | p. 203

German particles in modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence

Josef Bayer | p. 253

The treatment of function words in a new billingual German-English dictionary

Ekkehard König and Detlef Stark | p. 303

Index of names | p. 329

Subject index | p. 332

Index of particles and related lexemes | p. 336

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