Discourse Particles

Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-11-048882-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 564, 334 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

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Particles have for the longest time been ignored by linguistic research. School-type grammars ignored them since they did not fit into pre-conceived notions of categories, and since they did not seem to enter into grammatical relations commonly discussed in the genre. Only in the last century did some publications discuss particles – and even then only from the perspective of their discourse and pragmatic functions, i.e. their dependance on certain previous contexts, and concluded that the function of particles for the grammar of sentences and their interpretation remains obscure. The current volume presents 11 new articles that take a fresh look at particles: As it turns out, particles inform many aspects of syntax and semantics, too – both diachronically and synchronically: Particles are shown to have fascinating syntactic properties with respect to projection, locality, movement and scope. Their interpretative contributions can be studied with the rigorous methods of formal semantics. Cross-linguistic and diachronic investigations shed new light on the genesis and development of these intriguing – and under-estimated – kinds of lexical elements.

Zielgruppe

Linguists and Scholars in German, Indo-Germanic or Scandinavian S / Sprachwissenschaftler, (Indo-)Germanisten, Skandinavisten, Sinolo

Autoren/Hrsg.

Struckmeier, Volker

Bayer, Josef

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Josef Bayer, Universität Konstanz; Volker Struckmeier, Universität Köln.

Josef Bayer, Universität Konstanz; Volker Struckmeier, Universität Köln.