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  • 9 - The Attitudinal Force of Modal Particles

  • from III - Adverbial Modality
  • Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Published online:
    06 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 238-289

  • Summary

    Modal particles occur exclusively in topical contexts. They are excluded in thetic contexts and non-asserted grammatical contexts. They create common ground properties of high speaker-hearer connecting attitudinality with all assets language can provide in terms of manipulation and hyperlinking effects. As modal particles are not restricted to clausal finiteness and assertive contexts, they have a strong contingency in terms of speech acts allowing their occurrence outside of clausal finiteness.