- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Functional Heads: State of the Art and Further Developments
- From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German <i>denn</i>
- Lexical Complementizers and Headless Relatives
- The Theory of Syntax and the Representation of Indexicality
- <i>Wh</i>-Movement as Topic Movement*
- Subject Positions, Point of View and the Neuter Pronoun <i>tet</i> in West Flemish
- Number within the DP: A View from Oceanic
- Mirative and Focusing Uses of the Catalan Particle <i>pla</i> *
- On the Nature of the V2 System of Medieval Romance
- A Note on the Spanish Left Periphery
- Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field
- Articles as Partitives*
- Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion*
- Samoan Ergativity as Double Passivization*
- Revisiting “Suspended Affixation” and Other Coordinate Mysteries*
- Backward Binding and the C-T Phase: A Case of Syntactic Haplology*
- On the Feature Composition of Participial Light Verbs in French*
- A Note on Dative Incompatibility Suppression
- Hallmarks of Portuguese Syntax
- Notes on <i>Wh</i> In Situ in French*
- Re <i>Re</i> Again
- The Structural Object Position of Verbs and Nouns
- On the Double Definiteness Marker, Aspect, and Word Order in Old and Modern Scandinavian
- The Order of Verbal Affixes and Functional Structure in Imbabura Quichua*
- Number As a Feature*
- Which Is the Extended Projection Above N?1
- On the Lexical/Functional Divide: The Case of Negation*
- Diachrony and Cartography: Paths of Grammaticalization and the Clausal Hierarchy<sup>1</sup>
- Silent Heads
- Postnominal Adjectives in Greek Indefinite Noun Phrases<sup>1</sup>
- Afterword
- Index
From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German denn
From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German denn
- Chapter:
- (p.13) From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German denn
- Source:
- Functional Heads
- Author(s):
Josef Bayer
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The German particle den is the result of a diachronic development from a local/temporal adverb to a modal particle that is confined to interrogative root clauses. This chapter introduces the semantic as well as the syntactic properties of den, arguing that it heads a pre-VP functional projection that is in a feature valuation relation with the interrogative force head of the root clause. The approach captures not only word order facts in the root clause, but it also can explain cases in which den contributes to the illocutionary force of a question although it emerges and takes scope in the embedded clause. The chapter is organized as follows: Section 1 explains the discourse function of den. Section 2 develops the syntax of den. Section 3 turns to the role of den in Bavarian where it has turned into a clitic element, while Section 4 concludes.
Keywords: German particle, adverb, modal particle, interrogative root clauses, syntax, Bavarian, clitic element
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Functional Heads: State of the Art and Further Developments
- From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German <i>denn</i>
- Lexical Complementizers and Headless Relatives
- The Theory of Syntax and the Representation of Indexicality
- <i>Wh</i>-Movement as Topic Movement*
- Subject Positions, Point of View and the Neuter Pronoun <i>tet</i> in West Flemish
- Number within the DP: A View from Oceanic
- Mirative and Focusing Uses of the Catalan Particle <i>pla</i> *
- On the Nature of the V2 System of Medieval Romance
- A Note on the Spanish Left Periphery
- Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field
- Articles as Partitives*
- Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion*
- Samoan Ergativity as Double Passivization*
- Revisiting “Suspended Affixation” and Other Coordinate Mysteries*
- Backward Binding and the C-T Phase: A Case of Syntactic Haplology*
- On the Feature Composition of Participial Light Verbs in French*
- A Note on Dative Incompatibility Suppression
- Hallmarks of Portuguese Syntax
- Notes on <i>Wh</i> In Situ in French*
- Re <i>Re</i> Again
- The Structural Object Position of Verbs and Nouns
- On the Double Definiteness Marker, Aspect, and Word Order in Old and Modern Scandinavian
- The Order of Verbal Affixes and Functional Structure in Imbabura Quichua*
- Number As a Feature*
- Which Is the Extended Projection Above N?1
- On the Lexical/Functional Divide: The Case of Negation*
- Diachrony and Cartography: Paths of Grammaticalization and the Clausal Hierarchy<sup>1</sup>
- Silent Heads
- Postnominal Adjectives in Greek Indefinite Noun Phrases<sup>1</sup>
- Afterword
- Index
