Discourse markers and modal particles : categorization and description / edited by Liesbeth Degand, Université catholique de Louvain ; Bert Cornillie, University of Leuven ; Paola Pietrandrea, Université de Tours & LLL CNRS.

The present article investigates a cross-linguistic correlation between the meaning/function and the position of modal/final particles. It argues that some of the modal particles and their analogs in German, French, and Japanese derive from discourse markers that have come to express some (inter)sub...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Degand, Liesbeth (Editor), Cornillie, Bert, 1975- (Editor), Pietrandrea, Paola (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond ; 234.
Subjects:	Discourse markers. Grammar, Comparative and general > Particles. Pragmatics.