Particles in German, English, and Beyond / edited by Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich, and Augustin Speyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gergel, Remus, 1974- editor.

Reich, Ingo, editor.

Speyer, Augustin, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; Volume 224.

Studies in Language Companion Series ; Volume 224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Particles.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Discourse markers.

Focus (Linguistics).

Modality (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

Summary:

"Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Particles

Chapter 2. From up-toning intensifying particle to scalar focus particle

Chapter 3. Do intensifiers lose their expressive force over time?

Chapter 4. The interpretation of the German additive particle auch (‘too, also’) in quantificational contexts

Chapter 5. The German modal particle ja and selected English lexical correlates in the Europarl corpus

Chapter 6. Syntactic change and pragmatic maintenance

Chapter 7. Final though

Chapter 8. A comparative study of German auch and Italian anche

Chapter 9. Scalarity as a meaning atom in wohl -type particles

Chapter 10. Modal particles in questions and wh -sensitivity

Chapter 11. PP-internal particles in Dutch as evidence for PP-internal discourse structure

Chapter 12. Mandarin exhaustive focus shì and the syntax of discourse congruence

Chapter 13. Evidentiality and the QUD

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gergel, Remus Particles in German, English, and Beyond

ISBN:

9789027257673

9027257671