1. Introduction: Final particles from a typological perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. I. Introduction
4. 1. Introduction: Final particles from a typological perspective 3
5. II. Discourse Analysis & Conversation Analysis
6. 2. Sentence-final adverbials: Recurrent types and usage 39
7. 3. Taking an interactional perspective on final particles: the case of Finnish mutta (‘but’) 55
8. 4. Final particles in spoken German 77
9. III. Grammaticalization
10. 5. Some observations on the evolution of final particles 111
11. 6. The evolution of Japanese toka in utterance-final position 141
12. 7. Two Types of conditionals and Two Different Grammaticalization Paths 157
13. 8. The emergence of utterance-final particles in Korean 181
14. 9. Grammaticalization of final but: from conjunction to final particle 197
15. IV. Cognitive Approaches
16. 10. Dutch particles in the right periphery 221
17. 11. A relevance-theoretic perspective on the Norwegian utterance-final particles da and altså compared to their English counterpart then 249
18. 12. The Northern Russian utterance-final particle dak as an information-structuring device 285
19. 13. A study of three particles in Khmer: tɨv, mɔɔk, coh 305
20. V. Generative Approaches
21. 14. Particles and Parameters in Wh-Questions 333
22. 15. On sentential particles: A crosslinguistic study 359
23. 16. Circumstantial PPs and the middle field in Japanese 387
24. 17. Word order and the syntax of question particles 407
25. Subject index 427
26. Author index 432