Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Particles 1
4. Chapter 2. From up-toning intensifying particle to scalar focus particle 25
5. Chapter 3. Do intensifiers lose their expressive force over time? 69
6. Chapter 4. The interpretation of the German additive particle auch (‘too, also’) in quantificational contexts 95
7. Chapter 5. The German modal particle ja and selected English lexical correlates in the Europarl corpus 117
8. Chapter 6. Syntactic change and pragmatic maintenance 147
9. Chapter 7. Final though 177
10. Chapter 8. A comparative study of German auch and Italian anche 209
11. Chapter 9. Scalarity as a meaning atom in wohl -type particles 243
12. Chapter 10. Modal particles in questions and wh -sensitivity 269
13. Chapter 11. PP-internal particles in Dutch as evidence for PP-internal discourse structure 297
14. Chapter 12. Mandarin exhaustive focus shì and the syntax of discourse congruence 323
15. Chapter 13. Evidentiality and the QUD 355
16. Index 381