This study investigates the properties of a set of Italian adverbs (among others: pure ‘also’, solo ‘only’, un po’ ‘a bit’) that, in specific cont

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number

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

Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as

Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of