In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: The intonation of expectations: On marked declaratives, exclamatives, and discourse particles in Castilian Spanish Jan Fliessbachhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7929375https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/387 This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse … Weiterlesen
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Particles in German, English, and beyond Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview … Weiterlesen
Superparticles: a microsemantic theory, typology, and history of logical atoms This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities. Languages mark meanings with identical … Weiterlesen
Pragmatic particles: findings from Asian languagesPragmatic Particles sheds new light on the linguistic theory and application of Asian languages with a particular focus on the role of particles and their socio-pragmatic nature. Drawing on a range of data that spans … Weiterlesen