NU/NA : a family of discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond / edited by Peter Auer and Yael Maschler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auer, Peter, 1946 November 1- editor.

Maschler, Yael, editor.

Series:

Linguae & litterae ; Volume 58.

linguae & litterae, 1869-7054 ; Volume 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse markers--Europe.

Discourse markers.

English language--Europe.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 511 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book, situated within the framework of Comparative Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, Romani, Estonian, Finnish, Upper Saxonian and Standard German, Dutch, Icelandic, and Swedish), arguing that they go back to one, possibly two, particles: NU/NÅ. Each chapter analyzes the use of one of the NU/NÅ family members in a particular language, usually on the basis of conversational data, feeding into a comprehensive chapter on the structure, function, and history of these particles. The approach taken in this volume broadens the functional linguistic concept of ‘structure’ to include the sequential positioning of the particles and their composition, and the concept of ‘function’ to include the conversational actions performed in interaction. Employing conversation analytic methodology thus enables a study of the ways these particles acquire meaning within certain sequential and action environments -- both cross-linguistically and with regard to the grammaticization of the particles. All this sheds light on the borrowing patterns of NU/NÅ across the languages. With contributions by Peter Auer, Galina B. Bolden, Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Andrea Golato, Harrie Mazeland, Auli Hakulinen, Helga Hilmisdóttir, Leelo Keevallik, Hanna Lehti-Eklund, Anna Lindström, Yael Maschler, Yaron Matras, Gertrud Reershemius, Mirja Saari, Lea Sawicki, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Heidi Vepsäläinen and Matylda Weidner.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The family of NU and NÅ across the languages of Europe and beyond: Structure, function, and history

The discourse marker nu in Russian conversation

The Polish multifunctional particle no

The particle no in Polish talk-in-interaction

Functions of a particle in two European minority languages: Nu/no in Yiddish and Romani

Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle from synchronic and diachronic perspectives

Estonian no(o)(h) in turns and sequences: Families of function

The Finnish particle no

The word ny(t) as an adverb and a particle in Finnish

Nu(n) in Standard German: Its functions as a temporal adverbial, as an adverbial structuring discourse, and as a modal particle and discourse marker

Nu(n) in the Upper Saxonian Vernacular of German

The positionally sensitive workings of the Dutch particle nou

Nú in Icelandic conversation

Nå in Swedish conversation

The Swedish nu: A historical perspective

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 26, 2016).

ISBN:

3-11-034898-5

OCLC:

961064038