Particles in German, English, and beyond

Particles in German, English, and beyond

"Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contribut...

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Other Authors: Gergel, Remus, 1974-, Reich, Ingo, Speyer, Augustin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 224.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Particles.
Discourse markers.
Focus (Linguistics)
Modality (Linguistics)
Particules (Linguistique)
Marqueurs du discours.
Focus (Linguistique)
Modalité (Linguistique)
EBSCO eBooks
Electronic books.
essays.
Essays.
Essais.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Particles in German, English, and Beyond
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1. Particles: A brief synchronic, diachronic and contrastive introduction
  • 1. Delimiting current scope
  • 2. Particles from a synchronic point of view
  • 3. Diachronic aspects
  • 4. Contrasting and comparing towards explanatory building blocks
  • 4.1 A contrasting paradigm
  • 4.2 The contributions of this volume
  • References
  • Chapter 2. From up-toning intensifying particle to scalar focus particle: A new developmental path
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Stages of meaning change
  • 3. The developmental path up-toning intensifying particle> additive scalar focus particle
  • 3.1 Structural properties of intensifying and focus particles
  • 3.2 Semantic closeness of intensifying and scalar focus particles
  • 3.3 Summary
  • 4. The development of zumal, gar, and sogar in German
  • 4.1 The particle zumal 'especially'
  • 4.2 The particle gar 'even'
  • 4.3 The particle sogar 'even'
  • 5. Scalarity as a source of focus particle meaning
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Corpora
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Do intensifiers lose their expressive force over time?: A corpus linguistic study
  • 1. Introduction and theoretical background
  • 2. Corpus study
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1 General results
  • 3.2 Descriptive intensifier
  • 3.3 Expressive intensifiers
  • 3.4 Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1 Descriptive intensifier (n = 1)
  • 4.2 Expressive intensifiers (n = 16)
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Chapter 4. The interpretation of the German additive particle auch ('too, also') in quantificational contexts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. More data & previous theories on additives
  • 2.1 The distribution of inclusive and exclusive readings
  • 2.2 Previous theories on additives
  • 3. The proposal
  • 3.1 The underlying principle
  • 3.2 Consequences and predictions
  • 4. What needs to be done
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5. The German modal particle ja and selected English lexical correlates in the Europarl corpus: As you know, after all, of course, in fact and indeed
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modeling discourse management
  • 2.1 Information Models
  • 2.2 The Common Ground
  • 2.3 Discourse
  • 3. German sentences with ja and their English correlates
  • 3.1 The function of ja
  • 3.2 As you know
  • 3.3 After all
  • 3.4 Of course
  • 3.5 In fact and indeed
  • 3.6 Summary
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix
  • A: Proposition graphs
  • B: Information Models
  • C: Common Grounds
  • D: Discourse
  • Chapter 6. Syntactic change and pragmatic maintenance: The discourse particle then over the history of English
  • 1. Background and aims
  • 1.1 Theoretical background and major syntactic developments in the history of English
  • 2. Discourse particle then in Old English

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