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Chapter 7. Final though

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Abstract

Starting out from observations in English linguistics, the paper makes a case that final though is an English particle. An experimental study is conducted indicating that though is permissive outside of concessive contexts as well. The focus of this study is placed on corpus examples which have remained unaccounted for in previous approaches. A descriptive generalization is proposed in terms of noteworthiness and an initial modelling in terms of a split notion of Common Ground following Bar-Asher Siegal & Boneh (2016) is pursued.

Abstract

Starting out from observations in English linguistics, the paper makes a case that final though is an English particle. An experimental study is conducted indicating that though is permissive outside of concessive contexts as well. The focus of this study is placed on corpus examples which have remained unaccounted for in previous approaches. A descriptive generalization is proposed in terms of noteworthiness and an initial modelling in terms of a split notion of Common Ground following Bar-Asher Siegal & Boneh (2016) is pursued.

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
Particles in German, English, and Beyond
This chapter is in the book Particles in German, English, and Beyond
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.224.07puh

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
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