Discourse particles : formal approaches to their syntax and semantics / edited by Josef Bayer and Volker Struckmeier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Joseph Bayer and Volker Struckmeier: The status quo of research on discourse particles in syntax and semantics -- Markus Egg and Johannes Mursell: The syntax and semantics of discourse particles -- Waltraud Paul and Victor Junnan Pan: What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementizers -- Nathalie Scherf: The syntax of Swedish modal particles -- Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson: Discourse particles and hvað-exclamatives -- Hans-Martin Gärtner: Root infinitives and modal particles. An interim report -- Daniel Gutzmann: Modal particles `"modal particles (= modal particles) -- Yvonne Viesel: Discourse particles "embedded": German ja in adjectival phrases -- Sonja Müller: Combining ja and doch: A case of discourse structural iconicity -- Werner Abraham: Discourse marker = discourse particle = thetical = modal particle? A futile comparison -- Rosemarie Lühr: Stressed and unstressed particles in Old Indic -- Svetlana Petrova: On the status and the interpretation of the left-peripheral sentence particles inu and ia in Old High German.

In traditional grammars up to the 20th century, discourse particles recieved very little attention. Only in the last century did some publications discuss discourse particles - and even then only from the perspective of their discourse and pragmatic functions. The current volume presents 11 new articles that take a fresh look at discourse particles from the perspective of formal syntax and semantics, both diachronically and synchronically.

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