Discourse particles syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects
"Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well, and provides evidence for their na...
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2022]
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| Серии: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 276. |
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| Online-ссылка: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Итог: | "Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well, and provides evidence for their nature as a separate category. The volume brings together a collection of nine papers that focus on three research topics: a) the diachronic development of discourse particles; b) their syntactic analysis; and c) the study of their semantic-pragmatics. Furthermore, it also discusses other issues less dealt with in the literature but of great interest for linguistic theory, such as the acquisition of discourse particles by children or the analysis of elements not usually considered discourse particles but whose historical path or microvariation indicates otherwise. Additionally, the book offers a cross-linguistic perspective as it discusses various languages including Basque, Catalan, German, Italian, Laz, Mandarin Chinese, Old English, Portuguese, and Spanish"-- |
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| Объем: | 1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) illustrations. |
| Библиография: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027257765 9027257760 |