Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery ：Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change

Publication series ：1

Author： Beeching   Kate;Detges   Ulrich  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9789004274822

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004274808

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004274808

Subject： H0 Linguistics

Keyword： null 语言学

Language： ENG

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Description

This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.

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Contents

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi: French Disjoint Pronouns in the Left vs. Right Periphery

Chapter 3 Motivations for Meaning Shift at the Left and Right Periphery: well, bon and hao

Chapter 4 On the Function of the Epistemic Adverbs Surely and No Doubt at the Left and Right Peripheries of the Clause

Chapter 5 Setting Up a Mental Space: A Function of Discourse Markers at the Left Periphery (LP) and Some Observations about LP and RP in Japanese

Chapter 6 Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic Markers and the Left and Right Periphery

Chapter 7 ‘So very fast then’ Discourse Markers at Left and Right Periphery in Spoken French

Chapter 8 On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese

Chapter 9 The Interplay of Discourse and Prosody at the Left and Right Periphery in Korean: An Analysis of kuntey ‘but’

Author Index

Subject Index

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