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Gutzmann, Daniel and Turgay, Katharina (2016). On the Position of Modal Particles in the spoken Language. Dtsch. Sprache, 44 (2). S. 97 - 123. BERLIN-TIERGARTEN: ERICH SCHMIDT VERLAG. ISSN 0340-9341

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Abstract

While the syntactic and semantic properties of German modal particles are well documented, they recently became a major topic in formal syntax and semantics as well. However, empirical studies that are directly connected to this line of research are yet to be done. Therefore, this paper seeks to shed some new light on questions that arose in the ongoing theoretical discussions, for instance, whether there are different classes of modal particles and how they behave with respect to adverbials. In order to do this, we analyze a corpus of authentic data of spoken German. As it turns out, modal particles are not as frequent as one might have imagined, which is even more true of modal particle combinations. Modal particles mostly follow subjects or pronouns, which is in accordance with the theoretical research, whereas MPs mostly precede all kinds of adverbials. In addition, modal particles can be groups depending on their syntactic linearization. Surprisingly, these syntactic groups do not coincide with a semantic classification in speech act and propositional particles.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gutzmann, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Turgay, Katharina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-289490
Journal or Publication Title:	Dtsch. Sprache
Volume:	44
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 97 - 123
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ERICH SCHMIDT VERLAG
Place of Publication:	BERLIN-TIERGARTEN
ISSN:	0340-9341
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28949