NU / NÅ. A Family of Discourse Markers Across the Languages of Europe and Beyond

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Peter Auer and Yael Maschler The family of NU and NÅ across the languages of Europe and beyond: Structure, function, and history   1 Galina B. Bolden The discourse marker nu in Russian conversation    48 Lea Sawicki The Polish multifunctional particle no    81 Matylda Weidner The particle no in Polish talk-in-interaction    104 Yaron Matras and Gertrud Reershemius Functions of a particle in two European minority languages: Nu/no in Yiddish and Romani    132 Yael Maschler and Gonen Dori-Hacohen Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle from synchronic and diachronic perspectives   162 Leelo Keevallik Estonian no(o)(h) in turns and sequences: Families of function    213 Marja-Leena Sorjonen and Heidi Vepsäläinen The Finnish particle no    243 Auli Hakulinen The word ny(t) as an adverb and a particle in Finnish   281 Andrea Golato Nu(n) in Standard German: Its functions as a temporal adverbial, as an adverbial structuring discourse, and as a modal particle and discourse marker    320 Peter Auer Nu(n) in the Upper Saxonian Vernacular of German    356 Harrie Mazeland The positionally sensitive workings of the Dutch particle nou   377 Helga Hilmisdóttir Nú in Icelandic conversation    409 Anna Lindström Nå in Swedish conversation    442 Mirja Saari and Hanna Lehti-Eklund The Swedish nu: A historical perspective    465