1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973046503321

Titolo

Discourse markers and modal particles : categorization and description / / Edited by Liesbeth Degand, Université catholique de Louvain ; Bert Cornillie, University of Leuven ; Paola Pietrandrea, Université de Tours & LLL CNRS

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

9789027271228

9027271224

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series, , 0922-842X ; ; v. 234

Classificazione

ET 330

Altri autori (Persone)

DegandLiesbeth

CornillieBert <1975->

PietrandreaPaola

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse markers

Grammar, Comparative and general - Particles

Pragmatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modal particles and discourse markers : two sides of the same coin? : introduction / Liesbeth Degand, Bert Cornillie and Paola Pietrandrea -- "Same same but different" : modal particles, discourse markers and the art (and purpose) of categorization / Gabriele Diewald -- A radical construction grammar perspective on the modal particle-discourse particle distinction / Kerstin Fischer and Maria Alm -- Analyzing modal adverbs as modal particles and discourse markers / Karin Aijmer -- Modal particles, discourse markers, and adverbs with it-suffix in Estonian / Annika Valdmets -- Modal particles : problems in defining a category / Steven Schoonjans -- From TAM to discourse : the role of information status in North-Western Italian gièa already' / Mario Squartini -- The fuzzy boundaries between discourse marking and modal marking / Maria Josep Cuenca -- From discourse markers to modal/final particles : what the position reveals about the continuum /



Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu -- ; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The present article investigates a cross-linguistic correlation between the meaning/function and the position of modal/final particles. It argues that some of the modal particles and their analogs in German, French, and Japanese derive from discourse markers that have come to express some (inter)subjective meanings in a limited sentential position, and it elucidates that the position that directly follows the tensed verb group can serve to motivate the development of modal particles with (inter)subjective meanings. Referring also to English data, it further demonstrates that the utterance-final position is another site of marking intersubjective meanings.