Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery. Cross-linguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change

Contents......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 7
Chapter 1 Introduction......Page 9
Chapter 2 Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi: French Disjoint Pronouns in the Left vs. Right Periphery......Page 32
Chapter 3 Motivations for Meaning Shift at the Left and Right Periphery: well, bon and hao......Page 55
Chapter 4 On the Function of the Epistemic Adverbs Surely and No Doubt at the Left and Right Peripheries of the Clause......Page 80
Chapter 5 Setting Up a Mental Space: A Function of Discourse Markers at the Left Periphery (LP) and Some Observations about LP and RP in Japanese......Page 100
Chapter 6 Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic Markers and the Left and Right Periphery......Page 125
Chapter 7 ‘So very fast then’ Discourse Markers at Left and Right Periphery in Spoken French......Page 159
Chapter 8 On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese......Page 187
Chapter 9 The Interplay of Discourse and Prosody at the Left and Right Periphery in Korean: An Analysis of kuntey ‘but’......Page 229
Author Index......Page 259
Subject Index......Page 263