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 ex…
This work represents a cross-section of modern research on verb-particle constructions. The syntactic, semantic, morphological and psycholinguistic phenomena associated with the constructions in English, Dutch, German and Swedish are analyzed from the various different theoretic…
This volume brings together sixteen in-depth studies of final particles in various languages of the world, offering a rich variety of methological approaches to this still relatively underresearched class of elements. Final particles offers an overview of the different types of …