Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Diachronic issues and the development of discourse particles
5. Chapter 1. On the adverbial origin of German modal particles 13
6. Chapter 2. A particle-like use of hwæþer Wisdom’s questions in Boethius 41
7. Chapter 3. The discourse particle es que in Spanish and in other Iberian languages 65
8. Part II. Syntactic analyses of discourse particles
9. Chapter 4. Agreeing complementizers may just be moody 101
10. Chapter 5. Outer particles vs tag particles 131
11. Chapter 6. Anchoring primary and secondary interjections to the context 157
12. Chapter 7. Sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese 179
13. Part III. The semantic-pragmatics of discourse particles
14. Chapter 8. Meaning and use of the Basque particle bide 209
15. Chapter 9. Three German discourse particles as speech act modifiers 229
16. Language index 255
17. Subject index 257