Beschreibung:
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.
Introduction; 1. On the mirative use of the no (da) construction in Japanese; 2. Evidentiality, inference, conclusion: Japanese no as a particle and complementizer; 3. Mandarin Chinese sentence-final de as a marker of private evidence; 4. How are contrasts marked? - the case of ne in in Mandarin Chinese; 5. Cantonese question particles; 6. Softness, assertiveness and their expression via Cantonese sentence-final particles; 7. Formality weakening and the underspecified expressive yo in Korean