Part I.The contribution of information structural strategies to the rise of discourse particles

Chapter 1.Discourse particle position and information structure27

Marianne Mithun

Chapter 2.Information-structural properties of is that clauses47

Eva-Maria Remberger

Chapter 3.Kazakh particle ğoj as an existential operator71

Nadezda Christopher

Chapter 4.From focus marking to illocutionary modification: Functional developments of Italian solo ‘only’111

Marco Favaro

Part II.Information structure as a factor in the interpretation of polysemic and polyfunctional particles

Chapter 5.Final or medial: Morphosyntactic and functional divergences in discourse particles of the same historical sources135

Mitsuko Narita Izutsu

Katsunobu Izutsu

Chapter 6.Types and functions of wa-marked DPs and their structural distribution in a Japanese sentence161

Koichiro Nakamura

Chapter 7.Is the information-structural contribution of modal particles in the syntax, in discourse structure, or in both?177

Richard Waltereit

Chapter 8.Discourse particles in thetic judgments, in dependent sentences, and in non-finite phrases195

Werner Abraham

Chapter 9.Information structure, null case particle and sentence final discourse particle223

Yoshio Endo

Chapter 10.The discourse marker hani in Turkish251

Didar Akar

Balkız Öztürk

Chapter 11.Modal particles in Basque: Two cases of interaction between ote and information structure277

Sergio Monforte

Language index301

Subject index303