This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their synta

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower m

Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this bookfocuses onthe realization of modal particles and focus pa

Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specializ

Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose nu