Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The contribution of information structural strategies to the rise of discourse particles
5. Chapter 1. Discourse particle position and information structure 27
6. Chapter 2. Information-structural properties of is that clauses 47
7. Chapter 3. Kazakh particle ğoj as an existential operator 71
8. Chapter 4. From focus marking to illocutionary modification 111
9. Part II. Information structure as a factor in the interpretation of polysemic and polyfunctional particles
10. Chapter 5. Final or medial 135
11. Chapter 6. Types and functions of wa -marked DPs and their structural distribution in a Japanese sentence 161
12. Chapter 7. Is the information-structural contribution of modal particles in the syntax, in discourse structure, or in both? 177
13. Part III. The contribution of discourse particles to the information-structural characterization of illocutionary acts
14. Chapter 8. Discourse particles in thetic judgments, in dependent sentences, and in non-finite phrases 195
15. Chapter 9. Information structure, null case particle and sentence final discourse particle 223
16. Chapter 10. The discourse marker hani in Turkish 251
17. Chapter 11. Modal particles in Basque 277
18. Language index 301
19. Subject Index 303