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This chapter discusses two possible formal approaches to the semantic/pragmatic characterization of a subclass of modal particles. It may well be that the approaches can be applied to other particles or that they can be applied to certain intonational patterns (e.g., contrastive stress), to morphemes (past tense, agreement) or to words (pronouns) and constructions (some uses of definite descriptions, clefts), but I will not try to to show that here.
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Zeevat, H. (2004). Particles: Presupposition Triggers, Context Markers or Speech Act Markers. In: Blutner, R., Zeevat, H. (eds) Optimality Theory and Pragmatics. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501409_5
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