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 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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adjective 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
adverb, sentence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
adverbial clause, see clause
adverbial subordinator 1
AGREE(ment) 1, 2, 3, 4
Bangla 1, 2
backgrounding particle, see particle
Catalan 1, 2
Chinese 1, 2
– Cantonese 1, 2
– Mandarin Chinese 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 clause
– adverbial 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
– embedded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
– main 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
– matrix, see main clause
– non-root, see embedded clause
– root, see main clause
– subordinate, see embedded clause
clause type
– declarative 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
– exclamative 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– imperative 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
– interrogative 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
clitic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
common ground 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
complementizer, head-final, see particle, sentence-final
contrastive focus, see focus
Danish 1, 2
declarative, see clause type
descriptive content 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
direction-of-fit 1, 2
discourse marker 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Dutch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
embedded clause, see clause
emphasis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
English 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
epistemicity 1, 2, 3
evaluation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
exclamative, see clause type
expressivity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
feature
– sharing 1, 2, 3, 4
– valuation (see also AGREE) 1
felicity condition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
focus
– bound 1, 2, 3, 4
– contrastive 1, 2, 3, 4
– feature 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– free 1, 2, 3
– information 1, 2
– interaction with discourse particle 1, 2, 3
– verum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
focus particle, see particle
force, see illocutionary force
French 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
functional head
– adverb-related 1, 2
– attitude 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– C(omplementizer) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– clause type 1, 2, 3
– discourse/modal particle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
– exclamative 1, 2, 3
– force 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
– intervener 1
– left-peripheral 1
– LowC 1, 2, 3
– sentence-final 1, 2, 3
– T(ense) 1, 2
functional hierarchy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
German 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
– Early New High German (ENHG) 1, 2
– Middle High German (MHG) 1, 2, 3, 4
– Southern German (dialects) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– Old High German (OHG) 1
grammaticalization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Greek, classical 1, 2
Gothic 1, 2, 3, 4
Hindi 1, 2
Icelandic 1, 2, 3
– Old Islandic 1
iconicity 1, 2, 3, 4
illocutionary force 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
imperative, see clause type
information focus, see focus
infinitive 1, 2
information structure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
interrogative, see clause type
intervention effect 1, 2
Italian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
– Alto Adige (dialects) 1
– Veneto (dialects) 1, 2, 3
Japanese 1, 2, 3, 4
Latin 1, 2, 3
left periphery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
Logical Form (LF), see movement, 1F
main clause, see clause
matrix c...

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Title Page
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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
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