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7 September 2010

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Discourse Particles

Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German

Edited by Werner Abraham

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 12

1991. viii, 338 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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978 90 272 5022 3 / EUR 115.00
978 1 55619 278 4 / USD 173.00
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Table of contents

Foreword
vii
Introduction
1
Identical values in conflicting roles: The use of German ausgerechnet, eben, genau and gerade as focus particles
11
Focusing and background operators
Arnim von Stechow
37
Schon — erst — noch: An integrated analysis
Sebastian Loebner
85
On the semantics of modal particles
Joachim Jacobs
141
‘Wir sind ja doch alte bekannte’. The use of German ja and doch als modal particles
Katrin Lindner
163
Discourse particles in German: How does their illocutive force come about?
Werner Abraham
203
German particles in modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence
Josef Bayer
253
The treatment of function words in a new billingual German-English dictionary
Ekkehard König and Detlef Stark
303
Index of names
329
Subject index
332
Index of particles and related lexemes
336

Subject classification

Linguistics
Discourse studies
Germanic linguistics
Pragmatics
Syntax
Theoretical linguistics