This volume grew out of a workshop on formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal adverbs, held at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2008 in Hamburg. The workshop has been the third in a series of workshops starting at ESSLLI 2003 in Vienna and continuing in Barcelona in 2005. Since 2003, formal and experimental approaches to particles have become a flourishing area of research. For the right reason: particles provide challenges for the formal and experimental methods currently available, both in the kind of content they express and in the way they (seem to) do so. The papers in this volume provide many examples.
Inhalt
Henk Zeevat & Hans-Christian Schmitz
Foreword
Noah Constant, Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts & Florian Schwarz
The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora
Bernhard Fisseni
Überhaupt und sowieso and überhaupt en sowieso
Daniel Gutzmann
Hybrid Semantics for Modal Particles
Lotte Hogeweg
The Dutch particle wel as a denial of a negation
Elena Karagjosova
A unified DRT-based account of accented and unaccented middle field doch
Anna Lobanova
Expressiveness of the connective a: a unifying approach of its incompatibility and mirativity functions
Sumiyo Nishiguchi
Presupposition Accommodation of Discourse-Initial Too
Gerhard Schaden & Lucia Tovena
Sharpening the adequacy of a characterisation
Sonja Thoma
To p or to ¬p – The Bavarian Particle fei as Polarity Discourse Particle
Carla Umbach & Cornelia Ebert
German demonstrative so – intensifying and hedging effects
Lavi Wolf & Ariel Cohen
Modal Adverbs as Negotiation Chips Henk Zeevat “Only” as a Mirative Particle