Particles have for the longest time been ignored by linguistic
research. School-type grammars ignored them since they did not fit
into pre-conceived notions of categories, and since they did not
seem to enter into grammatical relations commonly discussed in the
genre. Only in the last century did some publications discuss
particles - and even then only from the perspective of their
discourse and pragmatic functions, i.e. their dependance on certain
previous contexts, and concluded that the function of particles for
the grammar of sentences and their interpretation remains obscure.
The current volume presents 11 new articles that take a fresh look
at particles: As it turns out, particles inform many aspects of
syntax and semantics, too - both diachronically and synchronically:
Particles are shown to have fascinating syntactic properties with
respect to projection, locality, movement and scope. Their
interpretative contributions can be studied with the rigorous
methods of formal semantics. Cross-linguistic and diachronic
investigations shed new light on the genesis and development of
these intriguing - and under-estimated - kinds of lexical elements.
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