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UNINA9910817108003321 |
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Discourse particles : formal approaches to their syntax and semantics / / edited by Josef Bayer and Volker Struckmeier |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; Volume 564 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Linguistics - Particles |
Linguistics - Discourse analysis |
Discourse markers |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- The status quo of research on discourse particles in syntax and semantics -- The syntax and semantics of discourse particles -- What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementizers -- The syntax of Swedish modal particles -- Discourse particles and hvað-exclamatives -- Root infinitivals and modal particles. An interim report -- Modal particles ≠ modal particles (= modal particles) -- Discourse particles “embedded”: German ja in adjectival phrases -- Combining ja and doch: A case of discourse structural iconicity -- Discourse marker = discourse particle = thetical = modal particle? A futile comparison -- Stressed and unstressed particles in Old Indic -- On the status and the interpretation of the left-peripheral sentence particles inu and ia in Old High German -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Particles have for the longest time been ignored by linguistic research. School-type grammars ignored them since they did not fit into pre-conceived notions of categories, and since they did not seem to enter into grammatical relations commonly discussed in the genre. Only in the last century did some publications discuss particles – and even then only from the perspective of their discourse and pragmatic functions, i.e. their dependance on certain previous contexts, and concluded that |
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the function of particles for the grammar of sentences and their interpretation remains obscure. The current volume presents 11 new articles that take a fresh look at particles: As it turns out, particles inform many aspects of syntax and semantics, too – both diachronically and synchronically: Particles are shown to have fascinating syntactic properties with respect to projection, locality, movement and scope. Their interpretative contributions can be studied with the rigorous methods of formal semantics. Cross-linguistic and diachronic investigations shed new light on the genesis and development of these intriguing – and under-estimated – kinds of lexical elements. |
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