Edited by Pierre-Yves Modicom and Olivier Duplâtre
The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and… read more
This article discusses the controversial classification of “modal particles” (MPs) in German linguistics, debating whether they are truly “modal” or primarily contribute to illocutionary force. It explores particles like wohl and ja to show that both have to be regarded as modal egophorics. The… read more
Within various frameworks interested in domain-specific language, like language for specific purposes (LSP) research and discourse linguistics, the insights provided by CxG-theory have led to the question of whether constructions can have domain-specific manifestations. Even though many… read more
This study concentrates on the use of modal particles (MPs) in non-standard questions (such as rhetorical questions or surprise-disapproval questions), both in German and in French. For French, the items considered here as MPs are bien, diable and donc. Their behavior in non-standard questions… read more
L’article porte sur l’item polyfonctionnel allemand denn, dans une perspective à la fois synchronique et diachronique. À l’origine, et encore en moyen-haut-allemand, denn est une variante régionale de dann (‘puis’, ‘après cela’). Le but ici est de proposer une description synchronique unifiée dans… read more
