Meaning of Focus Particles

Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose numerous problems for current syntactic...

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred...

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""An Inquiry Into The Origin And Different Meanings Of The English Particle But"" is a book written by Hermann Varnhagen in 1876. The book explores the etymology and various meanings of the English...