none 10.1075/slcs.224.13gyu John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 139168790 4092994 1421186 202507031657000045 10.1075 2025-07-03T15:01:40Z 2022-07-27T19:49:36Z 3 0165-7763 10.1075/slcs https://benjamins.com/ catalog/slcs Remus Gergel Saarland University https://ror.org/01jdpyv68 Ingo Reich Saarland University https://ror.org/01jdpyv68 Augustin Speyer Saarland University https://ror.org/01jdpyv68 Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field. 224 8 16 2022 7 27 2022 9789027211330 9789027257673 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/slcs.224 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027257673 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027257673.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/slcs.224/html Beáta Gyuris Hungarian Research Centre https://ror.org/01jsq2704 Eötvös Loránd University https://ror.org/01jsq2704 A study of talán ‘perhaps’ in Hungarian declaratives and interrogatives Abstract The aim of the paper is to sketch a unified account of the denotation of talán ‘perhaps’ in Hungarian, which appears in declaratives and polar interrogatives encoding assertions and questions. It is suggested for the first time that talán is not only an inferential or conjectural evidential, but also makes reference to the current question under discussion. The account explains some interpretational effects of talán , including the absence of the “interrogative flip” or the obligatory rhetorical question readings of polar interrogatives without constituent focus, which are discussed here for the first time. 8 16 2022 7 27 2022 355 380 10.1075/slcs.224.13gyu https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.224.13gyu https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/slcs.224.13gyu/html 10.1002/9781444304176 Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces Bende-Farkas 317 2007 Adverbs of Quantification, It-Clefts and Hungarian Focus 10.1023/A:1025887707652 Grammatikalizáció Dér 2008 Talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Eckardt 2004 Particles and Strategies Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 12 Eckardt 121 2019 Evidentials and Questions 10.3765/sp.13.9 10.1353/lan.1998.0211 10.1017/CBO9780511755088 The Architecture of Focus É. 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