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Discourse Particles: Descriptive and Theoretical Investigations on the Logical, Syntactic and Pragmatic Properties of Discourse Particles in German

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
1991
ISBN
9027250227, 9789027250223
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (29886034 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 12
Edition
1st
Pages
348\347
Time added
2014-05-12 11:33:23

Description

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of modal particles differ vastly from those of the scalar particles, on the one hand, and their homonymic counterparts functioning in different syntactic categories, on the other hand. The contributions to this volume offer the latest research on the semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of particles in the English and German language.

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