Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Identical values in conflicting roles 11
6. Focusing and background operators 37
7. Schon — erst — noch 85
8. On the semantics of modal particles 141
9. ‘Wir sind ja doch alte bekannte’. The use of German ja and doch als modal particles 163
10. Discourse particles in German 203
11. German particles in modular grammar 253
12. The treatment of function words in a new billingual German-English dictionary 303
13. Index of names 329
14. Subject index 332
15. Index of particles and related lexemes 336