> 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.
>