Struckmeier, Volker (2014). Ja doch wohl C? Modal Particles in German as C-related elements. Studia Linguist., 68 (1). S. 16 - 49. HOBOKEN: WILEY-BLACKWELL. ISSN 1467-9582

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Abstract

The article argues that Modal Particles (MPs) in German constitute low, intrasentential, C-related elements: rather than being adverbs, MPs constitute a class of emergent functional heads that spell out sentence type features. This categorisation explains many of the hitherto miraculous properties of MPs. Alternative analyses assume that MPs are adverbs, and line up in the specifier positions of a functional cascade that constitutes a clause in 'cartographic' approaches to syntactic modelling. These analyses fail to describe the properties of MPs and adverbs in German, I claim. The emergence of MPs follows a general trend in the development of German to express grammatical properties periphrastically.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Struckmeier, VolkerUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-444799
DOI: 10.1111/stul.12019
Journal or Publication Title: Studia Linguist.
Volume: 68
Number: 1
Page Range: S. 16 - 49
Date: 2014
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
Place of Publication: HOBOKEN
ISSN: 1467-9582
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
CLAUSE STRUCTUREMultiple languages
Language & LinguisticsMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44479

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