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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781687003321

Titolo

Discourse particles [[electronic resource] ] : descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic, and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German / / edited by Werner Abraham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991

ISBN

1-283-17425-1

9786613174253

90-272-8331-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

AbrahamWerner

Disciplina

430/.141

Soggetti

German language - Particles

German language - Interjections

German language - Spoken German

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held May 24-26, 1986, at the University of Groningen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

DISCOURSE PARTICLES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Identical values in conflicting roles: The use of German ausgerechnet, eben, genau and gerade as focus particles; Focusing and backgrounding operators; Schon - erst - noch: An integrated analysis; On the semantics of modal particles; 'Wir sind ja doch alte Bekannte' The use of Germanja and doch as modal particles; Discourse particles in German: How does their illocutive force come about?; German particles in a modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence

The treatment of function words in a new bilingual German-English dictionaryIndex of names; Subject index; Index of particles and related lexemes

Sommario/riassunto

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 semanti