Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discourse-oriented Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Issues in discourse-oriented syntax; 1. Issues at the syntax-discourse interface; 2. The contributions; References; The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles; 1. Introduction; 2. The derivation of left peripheral particles; 2.1 Left peripheral particles and syntactic constituency; 2.2 Left peripheral particles and generalized transformations; 2.3 Stacked left peripheral particles; 3. Left peripheral particles and emphasis; 3.1 The notion of emphasis for intensity
  • 3.2 Emphasis for intensity in the left periphery3.3 Emphasis for intensity and left peripheral particles; 4. Conclusion and outlook; References; On the interpretation of modal particles in non-assertive speech acts in German and Bellunese; 1. Introduction; 2. Bellunese particles and their German correspondents; 2.1 Particles deriving from pronouns; 2.1.1 Lu; 2.1.2 Ti; 2.2 Particles deriving from adverbs; 2.2.1 Mo; 2.2.2 Po; 2.3 On the interaction between particles and wh-movement; 2.4 Interim summary; 3. Interpretation of the basic facts
  • 3.1 Deriving the expressive meanings as secondary illocutionary effects3.1.1 doch; 3.1.2 denn; 3.1.3 nun; 3.1.4 ja; 3.1.5 The impact of intonation; 3.2 Some consequences and implications of the modular approach; 4. Towards a syntactic analysis of modal particles in standard and special questions; 4.1 On the distinction between information questions and special questions; 4.2 The analysis of standard and special questions in Bellunese; 4.3 The analysis of standard and special questions in German.; 5. Conclusions; References; Italian verb-based discourse particles in a comparative perspective
  • 1. Introduction2. On verb-based particles; 3. Italian sentence-final particles occur in the IP layer; 3.1 Adverb-based particles; 3.2 Verb-based particles; 4. Sentence-initial particles; 4.1 Semantic contribution; 4.2 Clause types; 4.3 Agreement patterns.; 4.4 Ordering restrictions; 4.5 The discourse particle dai; 4.6 Interim conclusions; 5. Cross-linguistic evidence; 5.1 The distribution; 5.2 The analysis; 5.3 Particles and vocatives; 5.4 The refinement of the analysis; 6. Back to Italian: The interaction of discourse particles and vocatives; 7. Conclusions; References
  • Italian adverbs and discourse particles1. Discourse particles as functional heads; 1.1 Complementizers and wh-pronouns; 1.2 The pa/po particle in varieties of the Trentino
  • Alto Adige; 2. Discourse particles as weak adverbs; 2.1 The strong-weak pronoun opposition; 2.2 Italian poi 'then'; 3. The (scopal) ambiguity of adverbs and particles.; 3.1 Three short case studies; 3.2 Conclusions; References; Is particle a (unified) category?; 1. Introduction; 2. The modal particles: Core properties; 3. Particles as grammatical markers in the left periphery; 4. Particles as verbal bases: Tha and as