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Re: THEORY: Modal particles in German

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Monday, March 10, 2008, 12:14
In a message dated 3/10/2008 06:31:30 AM Central Daylight Time, 
carbeck@GOOGLEMAIL.COM writes:


> I've recently wondered about whether there is a detailed description of > _Abtönungspartikel_ (I think it's called 'modal particles') in German, and I > found > this today at work (shame on me! :-P): http://edoc.ub.uni- > muenchen.de/4877/1/Kwon_Min-Jae.pdf -- I haven't read all 200-odd pages > yet since I'm still at work and have stuff to do. However0 from browsing > through the file it seems to be quite detailed, so I thought it might be of > interest to this list. The downside OTOH is that it's completely in German. > I > haven't yet looked whether an English translation exists -- the author is > not a > native speaker himself as it seems, so there might be one. >
I wouldn't count on it. German seems to be the original language, judging from the foreword. stevo </HTML>