An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order
constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a …

During the past few decades, a considerable number of lexemes (eg then, though, even)
has gravitated towards the end of an utterance in present-day spoken English, where they …

The grammatical status of final particles in spoken English, such as then, though, anyway,
and but, is undefined, as the various labels used in the literature (eg connectors, linking …

In this article we investigate the relation between discourse markers and turn-transition
strategies in face-to-face conversations and Instant Messaging (IM), that is, unplanned, real …

While it is not uncommon for verb-final (sov) languages such as Japanese and Korean to
deploy a wide range of sentence final particles, given the frequent reanalysis of their (post) …

Although there is a considerable tradition of research into Dutch particles, particle behavior
in the right periphery has not been part of it. This paper is a first exploratory expedition into …

Цей посібник є першою українською систематичною порівняльною граматикою
класичної китайської мови веньянь та сучасної літературної китайської мови путунхуа …

This paper examines how 'fear'verbs develop into epistemic mood markers in Chinese.
Diachronic, syntactic and discourse data converge to show that Mandarin kongpa and …

The connection between (inter) subjectification and movement to peripheral positions of a
clause is investigated using diachronic data on the Chinese pragmatic marker bushi. This …

This paper examines two types of clause-medial stance markers in Cantonese.* We trace
the evolution of these stance markers from their lexical origins as complement-taking psych …