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Discourse particles : descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic, and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German /

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 sem...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Abraham, Werner
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 12.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • DISCOURSE PARTICLES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Identical values in conflicting roles: The use of German ausgerechnet, eben, genau and gerade as focus particles; Focusing and backgrounding operators; Schon
  • erst
  • noch: An integrated analysis; On the semantics of modal particles; 'Wir sind ja doch alte Bekannte' The use of Germanja and doch as modal particles; Discourse particles in German: How does their illocutive force come about?; German particles in a modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence.