Discourse Particles
Subtitle: Formal Approaches to Their Syntax and Semantics
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783110488821
Subjects: Semantics
Description: In traditional grammars up to the 20th century, discourse particles recieved very little attention. Only in the last century did some publications discuss discourse particles - and even then only from the perspective of their discourse and pragmatic functions. The current volume presents 11 new articles that take a fresh look at discourse particles from the perspective of formal syntax and semantics, both diachronically and synchronically.