[Lexicog] Re: Shading particles or modal particles (Abt=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=B6ningspartikel_?=in German)

[Richard RHODES]

Many Algonquian languages have Wackernagel particles, some quite a number,
but they are as much about focus as anything pragmatic. That's because
there's no contrastive stress. In the language I know best (Ojibwe), focus,
old/new information, and pragmatics are parceled out between word order and
particles. No one has fully studied this, but Conor Quinn presented an
interesting paper in which he claimed -- and I think he's right -- the
functions are identical between languages even though in many cases the
particles are not cognate.

Rich Rhodes


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Hayim Sheynin <hayim.sheynin at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  [Attachment(s) <#13f39fe39702db6b_TopText> from Hayim Sheynin included
> below]
>
> Dear Fritz,
>
> Make a search on Google or Wikipedia of the kind
> <Greek modal particle> and you will get a big variety
> of the items, some with the reference to research
> works. You can do the same  interchanging the name of
> language in the search. Yes, as far as I know most of
> ancient languages of various families had this kind of particles
> or acquired them in the process of language contacts. Both
> the number and the character (modal meaning) of these particles
> varies in different languages and create definite problems
> for translators. For example, most of Russian translations from
> classical Greek tend to ignore such particles. In different
> languages of the same genetic group there is completely
> different situation in relation to modal particles. E.g. they are
> relatively abundant in Greek, Arabic and Amharic, but almost
> non existent in Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic.
>
> Thank you for Bavarian picture.
>
> Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin
>
> P.S. I attach one of my latest articles published in Hamburg
> I have in electronic copy only pre-publication text, but the
> book already appeared in Baar Verlag.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Dr. Fritz Goerling <
> fritz.goerling at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
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>> Here you can find good examples of how in English the function of German
>> modal particles can be expressed:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_modal_particle
>>
>>  *From:* Dr. Fritz Goerling <fritz.goerling at yahoo.de>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:25 PM
>> *To:* yahoogroups lexicographylist <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
>> *Subject:* Shading particles or modal particles (Abtöningspartikel in
>> German)
>>
>> Do you know of any studies on shading particles (modal particles) in
>> English, French, Spanish and biblical Hebrew and Greek ?
>> German has more of them than many other languages in which the function
>> of these particles is expressed by other pragmatic means.
>>
>>
>> http://books.google.de/books/about/Abt%C3%B6nung.html?id=rJ9zdx710BkC&redir_esc=y
>>
>> http://www.etymologie.info/~e/d_/de-partik.html
>>
>> Fritz Goerling
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>



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Richard A. Rhodes
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College of Letters and Science
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